If you go into the Printer setup from Start, Printers and Faxes, there
should be a setting to 'Print Spooled Documents First'.
Terry
: It doesn't matter how busy the printers are, even when no one is using
them,
: it will take the 2nd to last doc and print it first, then print others in
: order and print the first doc 2nd to last. occassionally it will print
the
: 2nd to last and next to last first.
:
: it doesn't matter if you print 4 docs or 24 docs, it always does this.
did
: not have this problem with word 98 or 2000 using same printers same
network.
:
: will look again but have not been able to find a printer setting that
might
: be causing this. we have 5 or 6 different brand printers and the exact
: problem occurs on each of them.
:
: "TF" wrote:
:
: > Check your printer driver setup: there should be a setting, 'Print
Spooled
: > Documents First'. Also, if you have a large workgroup networked printer
with
: > built-in hard disk, documents are cached to the disk if it is busy when
you
: > send documents from the workstations: make sure that there isn't a
similar
: > setting on the printer or that there isn't some strange priority setting
on
: > the printer.
: >
: > Terry
: >
: >
: > : > : it happens from more than one machine.
: > :
: > : "waldorf" wrote:
: > :
: > : > it's on a network, business application
: > : >
: > : > "waldorf" wrote:
: > : >
: > : > > When printing multiple docs, 2 or 3 files will print out of order.
: > : > > usually the first doc will swap with another. Problem occurs with
Word
: > 2002
: > : > > & 2003. Happens everytime even with several different printers.
Have
: > tried
: > : > > printing from Word and Explorer with the same results.
: >
: >
: >
