Windows 10: Completed print jobs remain in print queue with the status 'sent to printer'

We have a Windows Server 2012 R@ Datacenter 64-bit and as a part we installed print server services.

After a successful print the job remains in the print queue with the status of Sent to Printer.


I can manually delete the print job from the queue or stop the print services and delete the files within the Spool folder but they just won't delete themselves automatically after printing.


Regards

Hadi Rezaei

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Windows print problem. Every Time! Printer prints job, but on PC it still says "Printing" and no additional job will print.

This happens EVERY time.

It happens on two different printers on two different networks (at home and at work)....so it is a WINDOWS problem, not a PRINTER problem.

Send a job to the printer.

It completes and prints JUST FINE. All is well.

THEN==>>

In the printer window for that printer, it continues to say "Printing" (forever!) even tho the job has successfully completed. If i highlight the job and "Delete" it, it says "Deleting"....forever. No other print job sent will print, as they are all blocked
behind the job that has already successfully printed, and that cannot be manually deleted, either.

So, EVERY TIME the queue must be manually cleared out. The only way i can print another job is a 3-step process

• Go to Services, Stop print queue.
• Go to PRINTERS folder, delete all files.
• Go back to Services, and START print queue.

After those three steps, I can print again...exactly one print job...then it happens the same again for that job. Obviously this is a complete hassle.

I would like specific and definitive instructions not on how to now get WINDOWS to work "normally"...so that when a print job successfully prints and is done, the queue for that printer shows as empty, and so more print jobs can be sent.

If this were a very intermittent occasional problem it might be tolerable. But it happens EVERY TIME with EVERY PRINTER.

Help!

 

Print job stuck in queue

You might have to uninstall the printer completely from Add/Remove Programs, reboot, then reinstall them.

 

Print job stuck in queue


I have a print job in my printer queue that I cannot get out. I tried printing a website from Microsoft Edge and it is stuck there since. I have tried clearing out the printer spooler as instructed here. But there are no files in my win32\spool\printer folder.

Some more information:
I am trying to print from a laptop to a network printer at work. And the current status in the queue is "deleting".

Things I have tried till now:
- stop printer spooler and empty spool folder
- ran printer troubleshooter, but it just said it couldn't delete the print jobs, just like I couldn't do manually- restarted the printer
- restarted the laptop
- deleted the printer, but somehow when I reboot it adds the printer automatically again, including the stuck job