How can I unpause my printer? I paused a print job in the middle of the job and is now stuck in the "Paused" state.

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Have you tried unpluging your printer from the computer as well as unpluging the printer from the electrical? If that doesn't work you should start from scratch... that is remove the printer from the computer memory, delete it, turn off the computer, turn on the computer and go through the installation process as if you just purchased the printer. Barring any mechanical problems as in jams or the such, the printer should return to operational status.

SOURCE: Print job stuck and can not be deleted

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Nalin DSouza

• 224 Answers
• Posted on Jun 19, 2009

SOURCE: HP 2840 printer pause will not resume

uninstall your printer and then re-install it that should fix your issue,it could be a bad version of an updated driver that is causing the problem

SOURCE: HOW WILL I UNPAUSED MY PRINTER?

There should be a printer icon in the notification area. You can double-click on that to bring up the printer status. If the icon is not there, you can go to Start -> Control Panel -> Printers and double-click on your printer. The first item in the print queue should be listed as paused. Right-clock on it and select Resume from the context menu.

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Try stopping the print spooler service and canelling all the documents.

The Windows Print Spooler is a Windows XP "Service". You can start/stop it via the following steps:

1. Click on the Start button
2. click on Run
3. enter "services.msc" without the quotes and press Enter
4. Scroll down to Print Spooler
5. Single-Click on Print Spooler
6. The details will open in the middle of the window.
   • It probably shows Start -- if so, Start it.
   • If it shows Stop and Restart, I suggest Stop it, then Start it.