Printer's Unwanted Printing : Steps to act

Many times it happens, whiles going though a lengthy document if you want to take print out of a single page, but by mistake you clicked the print icon on the toolbar or instead of choosing pages option you selected whole document and clicked OK, without prompting windows will start printing the whole document if the default printer is on. But you can not sit there just watching the papers coming out of the printer, wasting paper, ink and also your time. So act quickly by which you can save a lot of resources. Just go though the simple steps below and act instantly if you face such situation.

01. If the printer has started printing, quickly look for the Cancel or Stop button on the printer and press it. It will stop printing further.

02. If your printer does not have such keys or you are unable to locate it, simply switch off the printer. Note, in this method there may be a paper half printed in the printing path. So remove it before restart the printer again otherwise it may show you paper jam warning.

03. While printing, some printers pop up an interactive windows where it displays the printing progress. If you are too quick in response you can cancel the printing from the dialog box. Remember, though you may have clicked cancel printing, but it will continue printing till the data passed to printer memory before your action.

04. If by mistake you have given a lot of print commands which are on queue or you have canceled the print job using the methods mentioned above, next clear the print jobs from the printer properties dialogue box. You can delete one by one or remove all jobs at time using "cancel all documents" option from menu.

If your document is very small it may have finished before you act fast even.