"fortunata" <pacifist@gmail.com> wrote in
news:NDaZg.296902$QM6.232425@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

> No one is answering elsewhere, and traffic seems decent here,
> so...
>
> I have an older printer (no USB ports) so got a converter cable
> to connect it to my laptop..no problem; software loaded, printer
> registers as default, and it worked fine a couple of times but
> now...NO. I click print (document, email, web page, anything)
> and it comes up on the screen as going to printer, but the
> printer doesn't turn on, and my system shows "six jobs waiting
> to be printed." How the heck do I get them OUT of the
> buffer!????
>

I use a command file that contains the following:

net stop spooler
del /F /Q C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*
net start spooler

NB: This clears the spool queues of *all printers* on my system.