Jasper de Graaf OnLine

The Windows spooler took about 5 to 10 minutes to start the next print job in queue.
There was no spooler problem because other printers had no similar long waits. This also meant there was no problem with spooler file access.
Compared our 2 Linkpro PS 350-A print servers for settings. They had the latest firmware and setting were similar, so no problems there.

The problem looked something like an old Parallel matrix printer not acknowledging that it had finished printing. The job was allready printed but the print spooler still said it was printing. That took forever until some other Windows server process recognized the process is 'hanging' and killed it alltogether. Just then the next print job in the queue would start to print.

The solution was just a checkbox away:
In the printer properties, open the Ports tab.
Then click on Configure Port.. to open the port config.
On that page, the LPR byte counting enabled checkbox should be ticked.


This solves the endless wait problem. I think instead of waiting for an end job acknowledge by the printer (that never comes), the spooler now just counts the number of bytes sent. If it has sent all bytes the job is finished and the next job can be started.