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How do you unPAUSE a printer.?

Anonymous
2011-06-10T13:16:53+00:00

Printer was working fine and then would not print. Showed printer is "paused"? Printer is directly connected to my computer via USB cable.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-12-12T00:37:33+00:00

    I have this same problem! I don't know what's happening but I have some really important documents that it's necessary for me to print within the next few days, but I can't get the printer to work. I've always thought I was pretty good with computers, both software and hardware, but I'm really not sure what to do...can anyone help?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-02T01:26:42+00:00

    Have a HP Photosmart 7520 printer.  Was working fine then all of a sudden I can not get anything to print.  There are 7 documents in the que.  Can anyone help.  Hate Microsoft 10.  Did not have these trouble until I installed it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-02T22:33:20+00:00

    I'm not the original poster but I have the same problem.

    Your kind solution  unfortunately did not work for me.

    The only document still in queue still shows "Paused" and I can't  Un-Pause.

    I even tried Uninstalling and Re=Installing, but now I have HP PSC 1200 and same thing Copy 1 !!!

    Should I try Uninstalling again?

    If so, should I wait before Reinstalling?

    Going nuts trying to get printer working again!  Have of course checked all connections...

    TIA

    Giborah

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-09-07T17:34:07+00:00

    What happened to your system shortly before the printing problem began?

    Assuming that you have Windows 7 (this is posted in the Windows 7 section),

    • Click the Start Orb then click Devices and Printers
    • Right-click the icon for your HP 6815 and select "See what's printing"
    • Click "Printer" and in the drop-down menu ...
    • Make sure that there is NO CHECK next to "Pause Printing" or "Use Printer Offline"
    • If there is a check next to either of those items, click to remove the check

    If there are jobs pending in the queue and they don't start printing when the checks above are removed, clear out the print queue as follows and then restart the computer.

    • Open a Command Prompt window (Start > Run > cmd > OK)
    • Type the following in the black Command Prompt window and press Enter after each line

                               net stop spooler

                               del /Q "%windir%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*"

                               net start spooler

                               exit

    Report your results.

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