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Printer Spooling help...

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Meractik

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We have tons of users who print to network printers setup on a print server from their Windows XP client machines.. several people are complaining of how each time they print they recieve a little alert (kind of like a security alert bubble..) but it says 'Your document was successfully printed' or something to that effect, down where you can view the print spool by the clock.


Is it possible to disable this successful print alert ? i cannot find it on ANY of the printers preferences or anything within windows to disable it.. ive already disabled all security alerts and it still shows up. :/

anyone know?
 
I don't think you can disable it. Of course I could be wrong.

Do you have one print server with many printers attached to it or do you have a print server for each printer?
 
one print server with many printers attached to it, its a pretty big network, its just one machine setup as the print server so everyone prints through this machine rather then straight to the printer, they did it to aid in the installation of printers since all the drivers reside in one place rather then using media to install individually.
 
There is a way to disable the message, but I haven't quite figured it out yet. I thought maybe it was the messenger service, but I checked and that had already been disabled.
 
its a tricky mystery... lots of users mentioned to me how it annoys them because they can already hear that hte printers printing and have their document and the little bubble doesn't even show up until after they return to their desk.. at which time they already know it printed. lol so it annoys them.
 
On the server with the printers, open the printer folder. Click the 'file' menu, and then click 'server properties', and then choose the advanced tab. The check boxes control the pop up messages.

 
thanks so much redbeard1 it worked perfectly! - only thing id like to mention about it in case anyone else stumbles across this forum is that you need to do this on the Client machine.. (windows XP) not the print server machine.. if you do it on the print server machine it disables the logging of that option, which may/maynot be a good idea.. 🙂 thx again redbeard1
 
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