Pausing, Resuming, and Restarting the Printing Process

If you need to, you can pause the printing process for a particular printer or even just a single document print job. You can do this to give other jobs a chance to print first, or if you just want to adjust or quiet the printer for some reason.

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Pausing an individual document lets other documents later in the queue proceed to print, essentially moving them ahead in line. To stop the printer entirely, you must pause the printer.

To pause an individual print job, in the printer’s queue window, right-click the document name and choose Pause. The word Paused then appears on the document’s ...

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