I have an HP 2605dn Laserjet printer connected via Ethernet cable to a
Netgear wireless router that is on a home LAN. Two M/Cs (both with
XP+SP2; one Pro the other Home) use the printer; the Pro via an Ethernet
cable and the Home via a wireless connection.
Both have the same problem: if left on overnight, any subsequent
printout usually gets stuck in the spool - it neither prints nor can be
deleted. When this happens, the router is still fully operational and
both M/C is able to access the internet as normal. Recycling the printer
has no effect, but stopping and restarting the spool usually fixes the
problem and printout appears fine for the rest of the day, so, to make
it as painless as possible I wrote a little .cmd file containing the
following two lines:
net stop spooler
net start spooler
It works fine, except that sometimes it also needs me to right-click on
the spool icon and hit "refresh". Can anybody tell me how to issue the
"refresh" command from within my little .cmd file?
I've given up on trying to figure out why the spooler behaves like this
and am quite happy to continue to use the .cmd file, but would like to
not have to manually refresh it.
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Regards, Gary Wooding
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