Move or copy a print job to another printer

Anonymous
2009-04-02T03:30:57+00:00

Is it possible to move or copy a print job to another printer?  My problem is I printer a few documents from the web to a printer that was offline (not plugged into my USB port).  Is it possible to move or copy those print jobs to another printer I have on my system?

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Anonymous
2009-04-02T10:49:39+00:00

Hello mjpalm,

Typically if you reconnect the printer, the print job will still be in the spooler for that device. If when you reconnect the printer the job does not print automatically you go into the print properties for that printer, right click on the print job and click restart.

At this time there is no function to grab print jobs from one print queue and place them in another print queue.

Judd

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-07-02T03:09:47+00:00

    Thanks so much for posting this...It helped me! My printers are also the same type....but it seemed like it was just a matter of choosing a printer from the list....not sure. We don't have UNIX like the last post says, so this was very helpful. Cheers!

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-05-04T19:40:06+00:00

    How completely lame!  This has been SOP on UNIX for years.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-01-11T14:58:01+00:00

    Transfer documents to another printer<!---->

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    <!----> To transfer documents to another printer

    Use this procedure to send your documents to an alternate printer when your printer has failed and your documents are stuck in the print queue. To redirect documents to another printer, you must have the Manage Printers permission for both printers, which is one of several printer permissions. For more information, click Related Topics.

    Since the documents you send to the printer are converted into that printer's language, you must redirect the documents to the same type of printer, such as a laser, ink-jet, or dot-matrix.

    1. Open Printers and Faxes.
    2. Double-click the printer that holds the document(s) you want to redirect.
    3. On the Printer menu, click Properties.
    4. Click the Ports tab, and then do one of the following:

    To send documents to another printer on the same print server 

    - Click the port to which the other printer is assigned and then click **OK**.

    To send documents to a printer on a different print server

    The printer must already exist and be shared on the print server. 

    - Click **Add Port**, click **Local Port**, and then click

    New Port. Type the name of the other print server and the share name of the shared printer in the following format:

    **\other_print_server**share_name

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-10-09T19:00:23+00:00

    Brilliant!

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