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On these pandemic times, printing has become more important for my kids homework. And it is very frustrating to see how something so basic can fail so much.
The setup is: an "old" HP22448C (HP Envy 110) wireless printer, a Dell Inspiron notebook running Windows 10, both connected to the same wi-fi network. I have tried both with the printer installed through Windows' printer settings, and through HP Smart app. Both seem to find the printer without any problem, and install it.
However, when I try to print anything, it usually just sits on the printing queue, waiting for something to happen, while the printer is on, and idle. Cancelling the job is useless -- it just changes its state to "cancelling", and sits there until it eventually times out. I have tried to manually remove the jobs from the queue (running "net stop spooler"; removing the files from the spooling directory, and restarting the spooler), which does work as far as the queue goes -- it is indeed cleared of any pending jobs. However, it doesn't fix the problem in the first place.
I also tried configuring the printing to go directly to the printer instead of the spooler, to no avail. I would consider this could be a printer problem, but I have a desktop computer running Linux (Fedora) that never showed any of these problems with this very same printer. Also, while I struggle to get anything printed, my wife can do it perfectly fine from her MacBook. So, it does seem related to Windows somehow.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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The setup is: an "old" HP22448C (HP Envy 110) wireless printer, a Dell Inspiron notebook running Windows 10, both connected to the same wi-fi network. I have tried both with the printer installed through Windows' printer settings, and through HP Smart app. Both seem to find the printer without any problem, and install it.
However, when I try to print anything, it usually just sits on the printing queue, waiting for something to happen, while the printer is on, and idle. Cancelling the job is useless -- it just changes its state to "cancelling", and sits there until it eventually times out. I have tried to manually remove the jobs from the queue (running "net stop spooler"; removing the files from the spooling directory, and restarting the spooler), which does work as far as the queue goes -- it is indeed cleared of any pending jobs. However, it doesn't fix the problem in the first place.
I also tried configuring the printing to go directly to the printer instead of the spooler, to no avail. I would consider this could be a printer problem, but I have a desktop computer running Linux (Fedora) that never showed any of these problems with this very same printer. Also, while I struggle to get anything printed, my wife can do it perfectly fine from her MacBook. So, it does seem related to Windows somehow.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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