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Old January 7th 10, 11:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Fritzchen
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Default Print Spooler Errors/Problems-You Wont BELIEVE The Cause


This thread gave me some clues to a problem I am having, and hope
someone has the solution since this thread started! I am working on a
small XP home network with a USB printer shared across the network. The
symptoms a The host computer (attached to the printer) has no
problems printing to the Canon iX4000. Another computer on the network
can access the printer no problems at all, EXCEPT .. that sometimes you
send jobs to the printer and they disappear off the queue without
printing. Then, sometimes it would print successfully and then not at
all. Weird.

So, after the tip off about the FP00000 and FP00000.SHD files, I
checked the system32\spool\PRINTERS folder on the host machine and found
the offending files there.

I discovered that the networked computer would not print to the printer
AS LONG as the 2 files still existed in the PRINTERS folder. I watched
with some interest, as these files remained in there, and then at some
indeterminate and variable time, the files would clear off. During this
time, the host computer could still print without problem. As soon as
the files disappeared (and you could do that by stopping and restarting
the Service), you could print to the printer. There seemed to be no
rhyme or reason as to what the time interval of deletion of the files
would be.

I was also told that the network owners had tried to fix the problem by
switching the printer from one computer to the other, but it the problem
just moved from one computer to the other!

So, what has to be done to automatically remove these offending files
after the printing has been done?


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