Windows 10: In Windows 10, print jobs won't leave queue after they've printed.

When I print something, it prints just fine. But, even after it has printed, the print job stays in the queue for about 15-20 mins afterwards, holding all other print jobs after it up. See the screen grab below.The circled job in the picture above has already printed. Yet, it stays in the queue for a long time, keeping&nb

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Print jobs stuck in print quese

My wife recently changed from Chrome to Firefox on her laptop. Afterward the system would hang whenever she tried to print something. I looked and it seems that jobs get stuck in the print queue after printing. There was a test page and another job. I was able to cancel the other job but the test page won't cancel. Restarting the print spool service resulted in the test page printing but remaining in the queue in printing status.

What should me next steps be?

 

print job stuck in queue

I have an HP Photosmart 7520 Series printer and last week tried to print a document from my computer using Windows 10 that was 47.8 MB in size. It only printed about 1/4" on the page and the rest was blank. I had to leave, but the next day, when I tried
to print a new job and would not print, I saw that the print job from day before was still in queue, so I selected and hit delete. I cannot get the job to delete using following:

1. rebooted computer and printer (including unplugging power cord on computer and router as printer is wireless)

2. tried all suggestions from HP website including trying to stop printer spooler so I could delete the file, but "stop" option was disabled.

These are instructions:

• Control Panel > icon view > Administrative
  Tools > Services >
• Scroll down, find, andStop Print Spooler Service
• Delete files from C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS
• Start Print Spooler Service

3. I even tried deleting the files manually through Windows Explorer
(C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS) but I got a message that the files were open so they could not be deleted. This is the closest I got.

4. I checked all settings on the printer and was able to print configuration page

I can print from my phone without a problem but I just cannot get that print job to come off the queue.

PLEASE HELP! (I am not an expert so I appreciate explicit instructions that do not need a computer science degree)

 

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!