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by sebazzz 2096 days ago
> Though I do have to occasionally run services.msc to bounce the spooler when it has a stale idea of printer state...

Especially for networked printers that is annoying! If I forgot to turn on my printer it always needs this trickery to get Windows to realise I've now actually turned it on.
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tyingq 2096 days ago
Seems trivial, right? Like checking in every 30 seconds or so. I imagine there's a guy at Microsoft that keeps trying to check in the simple fix but keeps being thwarted.
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jasonjayr 2096 days ago
Probably blocked by the guys that also said "Hey, you know what printers need? TONS of xml and SOAP. Yea. Printers should only be found by UPNP and controlled via SOAP."

Then WSD Printers were born.

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