Move a document from an offline printer queue to an online queue?

Running under Vista Home Premium SP2.

I have three printers installed: One online that I want to use, one offline
that I use only occasionally, and one at my dad's house that I use when I
use my PC on his network. The online printer is the default, of course.

I'm not sure how I did it, but I have a few documents that went to the wrong
printer queues. Assume for the sake of argument that I can't reprint those
documents. Is there a way I can transfer them from the wrong queues to the
online printer?

I'm smart enough not to consciously select a different printer when I do a
print job. Is the default status of the printer 100% dependable, or is
there something else sneaking around Windows that can defeat this.?

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:07:29 -0500, BudV wrote:

> Running under Vista Home Premium SP2.
>
> I have three printers installed: One online that I want to use, one offline
> that I use only occasionally, and one at my dad's house that I use when I
> use my PC on his network. The online printer is the default, of course.
>
> I'm not sure how I did it, but I have a few documents that went to the wrong
> printer queues. Assume for the sake of argument that I can't reprint those
> documents. Is there a way I can transfer them from the wrong queues to the
> online printer?
>
> I'm smart enough not to consciously select a different printer when I do a
> print job. Is the default status of the printer 100% dependable, or is
> there something else sneaking around Windows that can defeat this.?

Many applications that I use seem to remember the last device I printed
to in the app, and ignore the system default.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Is this what you're saying? Given my default printer D and a special
printer S. On Monday I print all my stuff comfortably to D. On Tuesday I
send a document from Word to S. Then more D printing. On Wednesday I
print Tuesday's document from Word again and it goes to S? If so, was it
Word that remembered the printer, or might there be something stored with
the document that remembered? (The template?) If the document was
different, would it have gone to D? And just to add to the mix, if I
printed several documents to D under Word, and then printed Tuesday's
document, would it go to S? I highly doubt that Word itself will do any
remembering; but associating a document with a printer through its template
sounds possible.

That whole paragraph is much messier than what you originally said:
> Many applications that I use seem to remember the last device I printed
> to in the app, and ignore the system default.

I know I've seen that happen. As long as I stay in the same app, it will
continue to honor the last printer specification I make. If I close and
reopen the app, it goes back to the default -- I think.

BE THAT AS IT MAY, I know I could get those wrong-queue documents printed by
1) turning on the local offline printer (in a different part of the
building), and 2) taking my PC to my dad's house and using his network. But
is there a way to transfer the documents to the online printer queue, or
print to the online printer from the offline queue?



On 8/31/10 5:58 PM, in article 10a6pv7eh4agx$.8n51y5ieatu4$.,
"Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:07:29 -0500, BudV wrote:
>
>> Running under Vista Home Premium SP2.
>>
>> I have three printers installed: One online that I want to use, one offline
>> that I use only occasionally, and one at my dad's house that I use when I
>> use my PC on his network. The online printer is the default, of course.
>>
>> I'm not sure how I did it, but I have a few documents that went to the wrong
>> printer queues. Assume for the sake of argument that I can't reprint those
>> documents. Is there a way I can transfer them from the wrong queues to the
>> online printer?
>>
>> I'm smart enough not to consciously select a different printer when I do a
>> print job. Is the default status of the printer 100% dependable, or is
>> there something else sneaking around Windows that can defeat this.?
>
> Many applications that I use seem to remember the last device I printed
> to in the app, and ignore the system default.

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:14:35 -0500, Bud Vitoff wrote:

> Is this what you're saying? Given my default printer D and a special
> printer S. On Monday I print all my stuff comfortably to D. On Tuesday I
> send a document from Word to S. Then more D printing. On Wednesday I
> print Tuesday's document from Word again and it goes to S? If so, was it
> Word that remembered the printer, or might there be something stored with
> the document that remembered? (The template?) If the document was
> different, would it have gone to D? And just to add to the mix, if I
> printed several documents to D under Word, and then printed Tuesday's
> document, would it go to S? I highly doubt that Word itself will do any
> remembering; but associating a document with a printer through its template
> sounds possible.

I can't even read that whole paragraph :-)

What I'm saying is that if the system default is D, and if you print a
document from Word to S, Word will default to S when you next run it,
regardless of the system-wide setting of D. Word, not the document, is
what remembers this.

Word is not the only program that does that.

> That whole paragraph is much messier than what you originally said:
>> Many applications that I use seem to remember the last device I printed
>> to in the app, and ignore the system default.
>
> I know I've seen that happen. As long as I stay in the same app, it will
> continue to honor the last printer specification I make. If I close and
> reopen the app, it goes back to the default -- I think.

Some apps forget, but I think most apps don't forget, when you quit and
restart. That's an impression, not knowledge.

> BE THAT AS IT MAY, I know I could get those wrong-queue documents printed by
> 1) turning on the local offline printer (in a different part of the
> building), and 2) taking my PC to my dad's house and using his network. But
> is there a way to transfer the documents to the online printer queue, or
> print to the online printer from the offline queue?

I doubt it, but ask someone else, in case I'm wrong.

> On 8/31/10 5:58 PM, in article 10a6pv7eh4agx$.8n51y5ieatu4$.,
> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:07:29 -0500, BudV wrote:
>>
>>> Running under Vista Home Premium SP2.
>>>
>>> I have three printers installed: One online that I want to use, one offline
>>> that I use only occasionally, and one at my dad's house that I use when I
>>> use my PC on his network. The online printer is the default, of course.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how I did it, but I have a few documents that went to the wrong
>>> printer queues. Assume for the sake of argument that I can't reprint those
>>> documents. Is there a way I can transfer them from the wrong queues to the
>>> online printer?
>>>
>>> I'm smart enough not to consciously select a different printer when I do a
>>> print job. Is the default status of the printer 100% dependable, or is
>>> there something else sneaking around Windows that can defeat this.?
>>
>> Many applications that I use seem to remember the last device I printed
>> to in the app, and ignore the system default.


--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

BudV;1711384 Wrote:
> Running under Vista Home Premium SP2.
>
> I have three printers installed: One online that I want to use, on
> offline
> that I use only occasionally, and one at my dad's house that I use whe
> I
> use my PC on his network. The online printer is the default, o
> course.
>
> I'm not sure how I did it, but I have a few documents that went to th
> wrong
> printer queues. Assume for the sake of argument that I can't reprin
> those
> documents. Is there a way I can transfer them from the wrong queues t
> the
> online printer?
>
> I'm smart enough not to consciously select a different printer when
> do a
> print job. Is the default status of the printer 100% dependable, o
> is
> there something else sneaking around Windows that can defeat this.?



The stuff you have provided is really informative.Thanks for the grea
stuff..

--
marcelirvi

'Digital printing' (http://www.outsource.net.au/index.html)
'card printing' (http://www.outsource.net.au/index.html
Posted via http://www.vistaheads.co

> "The stuff you have provided is really informative.Thanks for the great
> stuff.."

Forgive me if I'm being too sensitive, but I infer that you're being
sarcastic. Is there a problem here?



"marcelirvin" <> wrote in
message news:...
>
> BudV;1711384 Wrote:
>> Running under Vista Home Premium SP2.
>>
>> I have three printers installed: One online that I want to use, one
>> offline
>> that I use only occasionally, and one at my dad's house that I use when
>> I
>> use my PC on his network. The online printer is the default, of
>> course.
>>
>> I'm not sure how I did it, but I have a few documents that went to the
>> wrong
>> printer queues. Assume for the sake of argument that I can't reprint
>> those
>> documents. Is there a way I can transfer them from the wrong queues to
>> the
>> online printer?
>>
>> I'm smart enough not to consciously select a different printer when I
>> do a
>> print job. Is the default status of the printer 100% dependable, or
>> is
>> there something else sneaking around Windows that can defeat this.?
>
>
>
> The stuff you have provided is really informative.Thanks for the great
> stuff...
>
>
> --
> marcelirvin
>
> 'Digital printing' (http://www.outsource.net.au/index.html)
> 'card printing' (http://www.outsource.net.au/index.html)
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>