How to Stop a Print Job

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to talk about how to stop a print job. So, let's say that you are trying to print a document, and you only want to print a couple pages of it. It's a big document, we'll just assume 50 plus pages. You only want to print pages, say, 2 through 3, and you accidentally decide to print the whole thing. So it starts feeding the printer and you start getting page after page after page and you're wondering what the heck to do. Well, I'm going to show you. There are a few different things you can do. The first and most obvious option is to turn the power button on the printer off. Just turn the power off. That will stop it for the moment. At the very least it'll give you a moment to breathe and collect your thoughts and decide what to do next. The next option that we have is to go into the printer properties and pull up the pending jobs, and find the job that's there. It should still be listed. Choose the job, right click it and choose to cancel. That will eliminate, that will stop the job printing, and when you do that you might get one or two more pages. But once that's done, the....once those pages are done the job will stop. The third option is, if neither of those two work for you the third thing you can try is to go into the services. And once you go in the services you want to find the spool server service. Once you find that, you'll want to right click it, choose to stop it. Wait for a moment. Then choose to start it again. And that should purge all the pending print jobs, including the one that you want to stop. I will right click, choose to cancel the job, confirm by clicking 'Yes'. I'll can control click 'multiple jobs' and cancel two at the same time."