How to cancel print jobs on network printer?

I want to cancel all the print jobs that were sent to certain network printer. I don't have the access to computer from which the jobs were sent.

Example: Jobs were sent to network printer from multiple computers. After printer was disconected for service and put back after a week it started printing assigned jobs. I don't know from which computer there were sent - too many computers to bother about or they are off at the moment.

So can I somehow cancel printing jobs without accessing the computer? Is it possible to cancel jobs the printer itself? All computers are with Windows 7 or 10.

Thanks

1 Answer

If I understand right, the network printer is being sent jobs from the network. As there is no central print server, there is no unified print queue that can be cleared.

You may use PowerShell to connect to a remote computer and delete all jobs in the printer queue, using the command:

Get-Printer -ComputerName <SystemName>| Get-PrintJob | Remove-PrintJob

Note that if the remote computer is connected to another printer, local or remote, this will also clear its queue.

Documentation: Remove-PrintJob.