Paper saving utility for printers

This little program is a must for people who have either inkjet or laser printers.

If your printer sometimes seems to take on a life of its own when you send it a print job, if it starts spewing out page after page of gobbledygook or blank pages and will not stop printing even after you turned it off and back on again then this little utility will be a Godsend.

You can customise it to suit your configuration and it works on most Micro$oft versions.

Step 1 What it does...

The Instructable is simply a small utility file (batch file) that cleans out the computer memory and directory where the print jobs are stored.

What are batch files? Batch files are very simple files written in TXT format that allow you to program a range of useful tasks on a DOS or Windoz computer. AND you don't have to be an expert programmer to create fantastic tools, simply Google 'BATCH FILES' and you find heaps of useful information and lots of programs.

This batch file immediately stops sending data to the printer, stops the background process controlled by the operating system and resets the computers print system.

Afterwards it re-starts the background service allowing you to reprint the job all without having to re-boot the computer.

What the batch file can't do is clean out the printers memory! A printer will have a small amount of memory built in, this will need to be wiped manually. You do this by turning off the printer as soon as it starts misbehaving, remember to turn it on again when you have run the batch file!