Hey, what's going on TechNetizens, the name is Jeffrey.
And I could really use some help on this one. I have a windows Print Server running 2k8 R2 on a blade. Everything seems to be working fine, except I have 5 portable label printers that are printing either sporadically or not at all. They're all the same model, an Intermec PB50 printer, they're all using the same drivers, and I've spoken with support. They've said that everything should be set up correctly.
I can ping the printers, they all have a built-in web server that I can view through a web browser, and they seem to print for a while after I restart the printer spool service. I've used both the services menu and through net spooler start/stop and it seems to sometimes kick out a print. Also yes, I've made sure to delete the files from C:\windows\systems32\spooler\printers\ (both the spl files and the shd). And yes, I've turned the printer on and off again. Removed the battery too.
However this only appears to work for about 15 to 30 minutes. After that the print jobs seem to get hung up in the printer queue again. I repeat the steps I mentioned above, but there is not guarantee that any of these print jobs will even work after this. I am basically living on a wing and a prayer that these print jobs will work.
If anyone has any ideas as to why this is, I would love to hear it. I need these servers to be able to reliably print labels for the company, yet so far I seem to be floundering here.