Managing Print Queues

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

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Print queues are nothing more than the documents waiting to be printed by a specified printer. Although print queues require little management activity other than routine monitoring, sometimes a printer breaks down or becomes inaccessible while there are documents in its print queue. When this occurs, documents remain in the print queue until the physical printer is restored to the network. This can create problems for the users who submitted the print jobs: The print queue will still show their documents as being in line to be printed, even though it might be days before the printer is restored to the network.

In these cases, you might need to delete all the documents from the print queue, a process typically referred to as purging the print queue. (If you do this, you might also want to notify users that their documents have been deleted and must be reprinted.)

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