Printer Point to Ponder

[Fredder]

I have an all-in-one printer. I switch it on one morning and it does not seem to have a problem. Until we try to fax. It gives an error and if we want to copy the light does not come on. Now don't get me wrong, it switches on and picks up perfectly on the PC as well as the network.

So we send it in for repairs - blown main board. Now I phone some techies at Minolta (guess what type machine it is . . .) They say/I quote: "If the main board blew it should not be able to turn on." But we end up replacing it anyway because we bought the machine and did not want to sit with a loan unit til forever.

So it gets fixed and plugged in (17/04/09). The new printer with the new board then spits out print jobs of the day it broke (23/03/09). No print jobs were scheduled on screen, so I figure it has to be cached from the machine, but that can't be because the board was replaced and the main board contains the memory module!

Is it possible that the old driver suddenly spooled the old stuff that never got printed a month ago? Wouldn't a months worth of turning off and rebooting cleared that printing cache? I need to find out whether the company we have the maintenance contract with are screwing us or not?

[Wesley]

Is it possible that the old driver suddenly spooled the old stuff that never got printed a month ago? Wouldn't a months worth of turning off and rebooting cleared that printing cache? I need to find out whether the company we have the maintenance contract with are screwing us or not?

Yes, it is entirely possible that the print spooler in your OS can do this. I cant remember the default settings for the size or time-to-live of data in the print spooler, but it saves data regardless of which printers are plugged in.

[Fredder]

Thanks! Just like to be sure!!! Mods, please close!!!