# Printer weirdness

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-weirdness/24214>\
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [July 30, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-weirdness/24214 "2013-07-30T19:48:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-weirdness/24214/1 "2013-07-30T19:48:18Z")

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Got a user that has a printing anomoly I’d like to get solved. Running  
windows 7 64bit, pretty much every day he does not have access to any  
printers, network or local. Restarting the spooler on his machine  
resolves the issue for the day, but it shows up again the next day.

For now I created a desktop shortcut to stop then restart spooler. Any  
ideas on what can be done (aside from fdisk, etc) to resolve this issue  
so the spooler does not need to be restarted for printers to work.

He tells me he shuts his machine down normally every night.

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Stevo

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-weirdness/24214/2 "2013-07-30T21:14:43Z")

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Stevo:

If you haven’t already done so, see  
[http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/50ecd605-1b81-4](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/50ecd605-1b81-4)  
b93-a674-fa6a9efff1db/windows-7-sp1-x64-network-printer-offline and  
search the page for jdickson289 or “John Dickson”. See that post and  
those thereafter, and see if that helps in any way. : )

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Susan  
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printer-weirdness/24214/3 "2013-07-30T21:32:06Z")

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Susan sounds like they ‘said’:  
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> Stevo:
> 
> If you haven’t already done so, see  
> [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/50ecd605-1b81](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/50ecd605-1b81)  
> -4 b93-a674-fa6a9efff1db/windows-7-sp1-x64-network-printer-offline and  
> search the page for jdickson289 or “John Dickson”. See that post and  
> those thereafter, and see if that helps in any way. : )[/color]

So my response to Susan’s comment is…

Thanks Susan, I will take a look.

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Stevo