Re: Printing To File

Hi,

I suppose the print jobs are still in the queue of the incorrect printers. At a first step, save the spl files from the "%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers" path. If something goes wrong, you can later print them again with my splviewer or the emf spool file viewer from codeproject.
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/EMFSpoolViewer.asp

Download splviewer from my homepage http://www.lvbprint.de/bin/current/SplViewSetup.exe
Sorry it is german but not difficult to use (supports drag/drop for spl-files).
After starting use the second button from left with the "J". It shows you all print jobs for all local printers. If the last column "Datentyp" shows "RAW" you are finished. The saved spool are in raw format. You can send them to the new printer (with splview or command line "copy /b" or one of the many tools which can do that).
If it shows something with "EMF" you can preview the jobs in splview or print multiple jobs with the button "Jobs drucken" to the new printer.
This works for the freeware version with all documents with less than 300 pages. If you have bigger documents let me know.

Another possiblity could be to disable the "Enable Advanced printing feature" in the printer properties, "advanced" tab. Then all jobs are spool in the raw format. But since your jobs are already in EMF format you perhaps won't succeed in converting them. (That is perhaps an idea in the future. You can even set a per printer spool path in the registry "SpoolDirectory" entry in the printer section.
e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\TestPrinter
then it is easier to find the jobs, which belong to a specific printer.)

One more possibility, which I have not tried but was mentioned in some earlier posts is to enable printer pooling for the new and the old printer. Normally the job will be printed to the printer, which port is active. Perhaps this would be the easiest solution, if the drivers are the same.

Dieter



Hi,
Somehow my printer setup , which is shared from another PC, got confused and changed it's name to "Auto Printer Name". Before noticing it, I had sent several jobs to the printer but they will not print. I added back the shared printer and printing is okay now. Problem is, how do I get the print jobs moved from the incorrect printer to the new printer setup? I tried changing to "Auto Printer Name" to the same port normally used by the shared printer but that did not help. I tried using the Print to File option but I have to enter a name for ever print job in the queue. Since I have 500+ files in the queue, it'd take forever. Is there a way to send the jobs to a files without having to name each? I do not care about file name, just do not want to have to delete the files.

Thanks in advance.
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