Windows 10: old document occasionally prints when printing something new, I've looked and cleared the...

new canon printer ts9520doesn't happen all the time but, just now, printed something I printed months agoI've looked, there is nothing in the print que, looked at the print spooler, nothing there eitherI've stopped and restarted the spooler but... how is the printer printing something that isn't there?keep is simple please, I can follow good instructions but, I'm not really tech using win 10, office word 2016

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Documents Disappear in Print Spooler before printing

Hi David,

There are different factors that can contribute as to why you're not able to print documents on a wireless printer that other computer can use to print. This could be caused by outdated device drivers or the
print spooler that temporarily stores print jobs on the computer needs to be reset

Since you are still not able to print documents after you completing different troubleshooting steps, we suggest that you follow the steps to

clear and reset the print spooler to resolve your concern. This will allow you to restart the
print spooler service that manages the printing process in your computer.

We look forward to your response after you complete the steps.

 

Occasionally "Microsoft print to pdf" creates empty files

Have already done all of the steps suggested in that link.
The problem only happens occasionally; maybe two or three times a day.
Happening on several PC's, the only way to catch it before it goes to customers is the size of the file created.
If it is 0 or 1kb, it's a blank document.
Microsoft Print to pdf was working fine until about two weeks ago.
Thank You

 

Print server instantly "prints" documents after they spooling but nothing actually prints.

We have a print server running on a Hyper-V Generation 2 Virtual Windows Server 2016 1607 hosted on a Windows Server 2016 1607. Up until a couple of days ago, things were printing fine,
now all of a sudden we are unable to print anything. Documents will briefly spool and then disappear from the queue. If a printer is set to keep printed documents in the queue they will show as printed immediately after they finish spooling no matter how many
pages are supposedly printed.

Here's the troubleshooting I've tried so far:

• Ensured Print Server has the latest Windows Update
• Uninstalled the most recent non-security updates since problems started (and shortly before)
• Restarted Server
• Restarted Print Spooler service, both using the restart option and simply stopping and starting it
• Ensured printers print on their own; both configuration pages and USB direct connect
• Tried printing from Multiple computers, including the print server itself
• Shut down print spooler and cleared everything out of System32\spool\PRINTERS
• For one of our multi-purpose printers I:
  • Created a new printer and port to it's IP address
  • Tried literally ever latest Windows 10 Driver available on the manufacturer's site.
  • Tried every Print Processor
  • Unchecked "Render print jobs on client computers"
  • Unchecked "SNMP Status Enabled" in the port configuration
  • Set it to print only after all pages are spooled
  • Unchecked "Print spooled documents first"
  • Checked "Hold mismatched documents"
  • Set a new IP Address

The only major change since this problem arose was a change to the permissions, but as far as I can tell the permissions are set up correctly and this doesn't sound like a permissions
issue because there's no permissions errors and documents are spooling correctly.

Any new suggestions are welcome because I've run out of ideas and at this point we are considering just rebuilding the thing on physical
hardware to see if Hyper-V is causing the issue.