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Re:Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers? by scoutt on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:58AM (#24789270)
> Finally, the interfacing for printers today is fantastic.

Still in the year of our Lord 2020, once a document hits the Windows Printer Spooler, good luck trying to cancel/abort it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers? by zrobotics on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:57PM (#24790810)
From an elevated powershell/cmd:

  net stop spooler
  cd *:\windows\system32\spool\printers
  (remove all files in this directory) 
  net start spooler
Stupid, but this fixes like 80% of windows printer problems, most of which IME are random one-off issues with a document getting spooled and the printer not being activated
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