Windows printing - WHY! WHY! WHY!

[Doomer]

This really irritates the h!ll out of my. Why does it take Windows so long to cancel a print job and STOP PRINTING?????

No I'm not talking about the printers memory taking time to empty, you can turn the printer off then back on while windows is deleting all print jobs and it will start printing again.

The only reason I can think of for this behavior is that MS is in cahoots with ink cartridge mfgs. Yes, lets print 5 more pages after the delete all jobs is issued, we'll sell more ink carts that way.

Seriously, can it be all that difficult to just instantaneously stop sending data to the printer and at the same time telling the printer to purge it's memory and STOP PRINTING?

Thanks

 

[Zugzwang152]

how about you not click on the print button when you don't want to print?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I hate it that Windows doesn't estimate the number of pages of the potential print job in the printing dialogue. Sometimes I just want to know how many pages would print before I start the job. 😛

 

[xtknight]

I hate it too. Windows printing management is worthless and the purge all documents function is nonsense.

 

[Brentx]

I especially like it when you reboot the PC and the job is still there, after you have pressed the cancel button a million times. Then you turn off the printer and turn it back on, and it starts printing out all this funky text. Woot for Windows Printing!

 

[Nothinman]

The thing I love the most is when you just move your mouse over the print button in Office apps, they enumerate all of the printers you have installed and the app freezes for however long that takes.