Any way to schedule a Print Job in Win7?

[Kelemvor]

We have an ancient printer at work that takes forever to Warm Up in the morning. I'd like to find a way to schedule a print job to fire off in the morning so when someone actually needs to print, the printer is awake and they don't have to wait 5 minutes to get their item.

I couldn't find any way to do this but figured there's probably a way someone here might have come up with in the past.

Anyone know if this is possible somehow?

 

[Veliko]

First result in Google is golden:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...in+Win7&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

 

[MrChad]

You can use the command line to print a test page.

RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /k \\machine\printer

Just put this in a batch file and run it as a scheduled task for the morning.

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/2kprintcontrol.php

 

[Kelemvor]

You can use the command line to print a test page.

RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /k \\machine\printer

Just put this in a batch file and run it as a scheduled task for the morning.

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/2kprintcontrol.php

Cool, that worked great.
Thanks.

 

[Emulex]

yeah if you get trick and hold the job (some hp's do this) you can force the warmup with raw pcl commands without actually printing anything.

but most hp's of that era with the current firmware support wakeup and sleep configuration. it was the time zone (lack of updates) that would get you if you tuned it too tight.

 

[Kelemvor]

Only reason we're using this printer is so we can use up the loads of toner the previous IT person here bought. I'm fine printing out a test page every day. Just doing my part to use up the toner. 🙂