Windows 10: How I can detect a waiting printer job? - make a web-request on print

Hello,

I have a (private - not office) network printer.

When I print (and the printer is offline) Windows tell me in notification: Printer is offline

So I have to stand up. Walk to printer. And wait up to 3 minutes, until it's printing.


Now my idea:

I use a Sonoff-Wifi-Plug.
I create with ifttt.com a WebHook for it ... so I just have to request a cryptic URI.


Now the question. Have someone a idea how the message about offline printer start a script to make this request?
How I can detect a waiting printer job in windows spooler?

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Your Print Job Is Waiting By Other Job?

Thank you - there are 0 documents queued in the printer. The "Property List" document was what I was trying to print at the time. Whenever I try to print, the document name I am currently printing is what shows up there, then it eventually prints after a minute or two.

 

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!

 

Your Print Job Is Waiting By Other Job?


For every computer connected to the network at work, do the following:
1) Search for, and open, Devices and Printers



2) Double click on your printer (Samsung ML-2950) [in my picture, I have an HP Printer]
3) See if there's anything in there, maybe named Property List.xls
4) Delete that from the Print Que