After installing a printer server on a small network with 6 computers, and setting up the printer in windows to use a tcp/ip port, the printer has started printing old jobs, when the computer restarts. I found that the printer spooler did not delete old jobs in the "C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS" folder. I started doing this manually, and it seems to do the trick, but after a week the printer started printing very old jobs, even though there where no jobs/files in the "C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS" folder. This seems to occur at random now, and I am totally lost about this problem. So my questions is this, where are these old printer job stored, if not in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS"? And how do I make the printer spooler stop this new habit of printing old jobs? The printer is a HP jetdirect 1200 and the external printer server is a HP jetdirect 175x. I have talked with HP support about this, but they insist that this is a problem with the printer spooler, and that I should contact Microsoft about it, which I tried but haven’t gotten any reply from them.

Mark If you ever find a solution to this problem, I would love to know the answer. I look after a six computer LAN, all of which have access to a Networked HP 1200 with built in print server. It works fine on five of the machines except one which shows the same symptoms as you describe. Everyone who uses these machines now knows that the first thing they do when the switch on number four is to clear the print spooler. After that everything is fine till the next time. Stuart