# Printer madness **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [January 27, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843 "2016-01-27T22:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/1 "2016-01-27T22:56:00Z")
Have a machine that was just placed after being re-imaged. Running win7 64 bit, fully patched. Support person connected the usb attached hp lj 2300 and things have gone quite wonky since. Printer installed with PS drivers, which windows kept saying were incorrect. Unplugged printer, rebooted, lj 2300 ps keeps showing up, unable to delete the PS drivers as machine says they’re in use. Finally got some pcl drivers on the machine and an hp lj 2300 pcl printer shows up now, however the PS one keeps showing up. Any good ideas on how to remove the PS drivers _and_ make that printer quit showing up every time the machine boots? – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/2 "2016-01-28T15:19:33Z")
Stevo: Have you tried removing it via the command prompt printui /s? The installed printer drivers are listed there and there’s a remove option. And if you have already tried that, nevermind. LOL 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/3 "2016-01-28T19:59:21Z")
Susan wrote: [color=blue] > Have you tried removing it via the command prompt printui /s? The > installed printer drivers are listed there and there’s a remove > option. And if you have already tried that, nevermind. LOL :)[/color] I’ve never come across that command - very kewl! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/4 "2016-01-28T20:33:35Z")
Susan sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Stevo: > > Have you tried removing it via the command prompt printui /s? The > installed printer drivers are listed there and there’s a remove > option. And if you have already tried that, nevermind. LOL :)[/color] So my response to Susan’s comment is… I’ve tried that, just not via the actual command. Unable to delete the drivers as they’re ‘in use’ by the printer that keeps showing up even when not physically connected. I… hate… printers – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/5 "2016-01-29T14:43:04Z")
Stevo: Have you stopped the print spooler first? I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, and if I remember, part of finally getting rid of the stupid thing was stopping the print spooler, then the driver. It may also have involved going into safe mode, but that could have been a different issue. I hate printers, too. The only printer I loved was my HP IIIP. Well, I love my large format Epson, also, now, but pretty much every other printer I ever had to deal with, personally or professionally, was a pain in the okole! 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/6 "2016-01-29T14:43:05Z")
Scott: It comes in handy now and then. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/7 "2016-01-29T15:25:59Z")
I just did a search and came across this: [http://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/170-cant-remove-printer-drivers-in-windows-7-the-specified-printer-driver-is-currently-in-use](http://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/170-cant-remove-printer-drivers-in-windows-7-the-specified-printer-driver-is-currently-in-use) – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/8 "2016-01-29T15:30:21Z")
Further searching seemed to indicate that the trick is to stop and restart the print spooler, and IMMEDIATELY delete the driver. So you’re deleting the driver BEFORE the print spooler actually gets itself started and grabs onto the printers. : ) – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![buckesfeld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@buckesfeld](https://forums.suse.com/u/buckesfeld)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/9 "2016-01-30T18:00:00Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > I… > hate… > printers > [/color] I repeatedly suggested ditching printers and hiring monks instead. Lower maintenance costs, and their output looks really impressive. U ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/10 "2016-01-31T00:35:55Z")
LOL – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/11 "2016-01-31T09:55:11Z")
Uwe, how illuminating! – Shaun Pond in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment easy ---
**Author:** ![ketter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@ketter](https://forums.suse.com/u/ketter)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/12 "2016-02-01T15:29:26Z")
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 07:55:11 GMT, Shaun Pond [shaunpond@no-mx.forums.novell.com](mailto:shaunpond@no-mx.forums.novell.com) wrote: [color=blue] > Uwe, > > how illuminating![/color] Groan! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/13 "2016-02-01T16:44:00Z")
On 31/01/2016 07:55, Shaun Pond wrote:[color=blue] > Uwe, > > how illuminating! > [/color] > Shaun, > Think you’ll find there’s prior art on that joke. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/14 "2016-02-01T16:44:17Z")
Uwe Buckesfeld sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > I repeatedly suggested ditching printers and hiring monks instead. > Lower maintenance costs, and their output looks really impressive. > > U[/color] So my response to Uwe’s comment is… Ha! Works for me. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/15 "2016-02-01T17:07:47Z")
KenL, you mean from the Canadian monks? What’s all that abbot then? – Shaun Pond in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment easy ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/16 "2016-02-01T22:08:28Z")
Hey Shaun Pond: [color=blue] > you mean from the Canadian monks?[/color] I wouldn’t use them. They spell things funny. – Kim - 2/1/2016 1:08:11 PM ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/17 "2016-02-02T13:45:03Z")
Kgroneman, we know Americans have short attention spans: that’s why you had to shorten your words! – Shaun Pond in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment easy ---
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Most people here are still trying to figure out what “tuppuns a bag” means in the Sound of Music song. – Kim - 2/2/2016 7:52:31 AM ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843/19 "2016-02-02T16:58:06Z")
I love the English people. The country that birthed modern democracy. The country that stood almost alone against evil agressoin at various times in the recent past. A great nation and people that have contributed more than significant knowledge and humanity to this world. – Kim - 2/2/2016 7:53:44 ---
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Kgroneman, and who taught the world how cruelty and slavery _should_ be done… – Shaun Pond in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment easy [Next page](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-madness/27843.md?page=2)