Print Job Redirecting

After I have sent a print job to printer 1 and it doesn't print, can I
redirect the jobs to printer 2 from the spooler?
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Ron

Hi Ron,

not with windows-tools.

Download SplViewer from here
http://www.lvbprint.de/bin/current/SplViewSetup.exe
It's free for documents with less than 300 pages.
Start it, open the "%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers"-folder and
drag-drop the SPL-File from here into the viewer. In the viewer use the
print-icon to print the document to another printer.
Perhaps you have to use an translation tool, if you don't understand the
print options, since SplViewer is only available in german language.

Another tricky way, which is not sure to work is:
Stop the destination printer. Print a testpage on it.
Goto the spool\printers-folder and look which spl-file correspondends to
the new job. Then copy the job the old SPL-File to new one and continue
the destination printer. With good luck it will work.

Dieter

After I have sent a print job to printer 1 and it doesn't print, can I
redirect the jobs to printer 2 from the spooler?

The physical print devices are associated with the "Port" objects, not the
"Printer" objects. If you add a check mark to the Enable printer Pooling on
the Ports tab of the "Printer"'s Properties, you can add a second "port" and
thus physical print device (physical printer) to the same "Printer" object.

It's not something I've actually experimented with, but try this:

1. pause the Printer
2. in the Ports tab, add a check mark to the Enable printer pooling check
mark
3. add a check mark to the Port that is associated with the other physical
printer device; click Apply
4. remove the check mark from the Port that is associated with the original
physical printer device
5. remove the check mark from Enable printer pooling; click Apply
6. remove the Pause Printer check mark

For this to work, both physical printers would need to be the same make and
model, or at least "compatible" in the sense of understanding the same
printer language becuase the spool files typically contain instructions etc.
that are specific to the printer language. For example, if the first
printer is an HP LaserJet printer and the second one is also an HP LaserJet
printer of the same vintage or later, this technique may work. But, if one
is an HP LaserJet printer and the other is and HP Deskjet printer, you will
most likely get garbage printed.

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It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.


"Ron" wrote in message
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After I have sent a print job to printer 1 and it doesn't print, can I
redirect the jobs to printer 2 from the spooler?
--
Ron