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How to kill printing of Tbird Contacts List (it prints one on each page)

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I made the mistake of selecting my entire addresses list and sending it to my printer. As it started to print each entry on a separate page I tried to cancel it. Trouble is it cancels printing of one entry only ie the current address, then starts printing the next entry. As it is a long list I want to simply kill it but have found no way of doing so. Even a reboot doesn't work, the printing resumes after restart. I realise that this is slightly outside of Tbird but thought someone might have solved this previously. I;m using Windows 10 on an HP laptop and and Canon MX870 printer.

I made the mistake of selecting my entire addresses list and sending it to my printer. As it started to print each entry on a separate page I tried to cancel it. Trouble is it cancels printing of one entry only ie the current address, then starts printing the next entry. As it is a long list I want to simply kill it but have found no way of doing so. Even a reboot doesn't work, the printing resumes after restart. I realise that this is slightly outside of Tbird but thought someone might have solved this previously. I;m using Windows 10 on an HP laptop and and Canon MX870 printer.

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See if you can open the print queue and clear any pending or active jobs:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4027370/windows-10-view-the-print-queue

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Wish I could but strangely I cannot get my printer to appear in the Settings page and when I try to add it all that happens is the printing restarts??

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When the printer is printing, there should be an icon in the notification area you can open and control the print job.

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Notification area?? If I kill the job on the printer it is still on the queue and will reprint. I haven't yet found any way to kill the whole job. Cancelling only cancels printing of a single entry. Thanks anyway sfhowes.

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JN78 said

Notification area?? If I kill the job on the printer it is still on the queue and will reprint. I haven't yet found any way to kill the whole job. Cancelling only cancels printing of a single entry. Thanks anyway sfhowes.

Then there might be one entry of each page in the print que on your system, but this is a question about how to use your operating system facilities, not Thunderbird.

Perhaps this will help https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/print-job-stuck-in-spooling-state/65ffb598-0545-49c2-89b4-84719b2cce5b?auth=1