When I click on cancel and then on "yes" the printing job continues. Sometimes I want to stop in the middle of the job because I have gotten all that I want printed.

First You Need to Open the Print Queue, follow the below steps on how to open a Print queue

• Windows 98 - click Start, Settings, Printers
• Windows XP - click Start, Printers and Faxes
  or click Start, Control Panel, Printers and Faxes
• Windows Vista - Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Printers

Double click on the appropriate printer to open up the Print queue,Check whether you have any pending or the queued jobs, try to cancel the jobs by following the below steps.

To cancel one or more print jobs, follow these steps.
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type control printers, and then click OK.
3. Right-click the icon for your printer, and then click Open.
• To cancel individual print jobs, right-click the print job that you want to cancel, and then click Cancel.
• To cancel all print jobs, click Cancel All Documents on the Printer menu.

If you are using an HP printer and a windows vista operating system then you are lucky to automaticlly fix the issue with the HP Print Diagnostic UtilityClick Here For How to cancel printing or to delete a print job that is stuck in the print queue in Windows XP.

Alternatively You can check the below steps.

Delete Pending Jobs

How To Restart Spooler restart In Windows Vista

Click the Start button.
Click Control Panel.
Click System and Maintenance.

NOTE: This step is not required when using Classic view in Windows Vista.

Click Administrative Tools.
Double-click Services.
On the User Account Control window, click Continue.
Click Print Spooler.
Click Stop to stop the Print Spooler.
Click Start to restart the Print Spooler. Then click Restart
Click OK

Hope this helps!

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open printer properties and delete or cancel all pending print jobs

There are two ways to stop the job.

1. Click the cancel button on the printer
2. Go to Start > Printers and Faxes > Double click on the printer that is being printed on > Right Click on the job you want to cancel > Press Yes
   
   

Hi,

Windows XP Operating System
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Restart the Print Spooler device

1. Open Administrative Tools.
2. On the Windows taskbar, click Start , and then click Control Panel .
3. Click Performance and Maintenance . NOTE: This step is not necessary in XP Classic View.
4. Click Administrative Tools .
5. Double-click Services .
6. Click Print Spooler .
7. Click Stop to stop the Print Spooler.
8. Click Start to restart the Print Spooler.
9. Click OK .
10. Restart the computer.
11. Try the print job again.

Manually clear the print queue

1. Return to the Printers and Faxes folder that you opened in the previous steps.
2. Right-click the name of the product, and then click Open .
3. Click Printer , and then click Cancel All Documents .
4. Click Yes to confirm the action.
5. If documents remain in the print queue, restart the computer.
6. Try printing again.

Windows Vista Operating System
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Manually clear the print queue

1. Return to the Printers folder that you opened earlier in this document.
2. Right-click the name of the product, and then click Open .
3. Click Printer , and then click Cancel All Documents .
4. Click Yes to confirm the action.
5. If documents remain in the print queue, restart the computer.
6. Try printing again.

If the issue continues, proceed to the next step. Restart the Print Spooler device

1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Windows icon ( ), click Control Panel , and then click Administrative Tools .
2. Double-click Services .
3. On the User Account Control window, click Continue .
4. Click Print Spooler .
5. Click Stop to stop the Print Spooler.
6. Click Start to restart the Print Spooler.
7. Click OK .
8. Restart the computer.
9. Try the print job again.

to cancel a print job click on the start button then go to control panel and thento printers and faxes you will see the name of your printer right click on that icon and select cancel all documents
confirm the cancel and select yes
if even after doing this step 2-3 times the print job is not cancelled then click on start in run tupe services.msc then in the window that will open up look for print spooler and then right click on print spooler and click on stop
now unplug the usb cable from the printer and restart the computer after restart go to the printers folder and then see if there are any printjobs
is still ther are any right click on the printer folder and select cancel all documents
and now connect the usb cable

Delete Queued Print Job If a print job is corruptand does not print clearly, does not print at all or is preventingother queued jobs from printing, delete the queued job.

1. On the Windows taskbar, double-click the printer icon located to the left of the time.
   
   
   
   
2. At the Printer window, select the print job, under 'Document Name' column, to highlight it.
   
   
3. From the 'Document' menu, select 'Cancel'.
   
   
4. Repeat steps two and three to cancel another print job.
   
   
5. Ifthe print job cannot be cancelled or will not stop printing, shut downthe compuer, disconnect the printer cable and then restart the computer.
   
1. Close the Printer window.
   
2. Shut down the computer.
   
3. Disconnect the printer cable (USB or parallel cable).
   
4. Restart the computer.
   
5. If a message window appears asking to cancel printing, select 'Yes'.
   
6. Verifythe printer icon no longer appears on the Windows taskbar. If the iconappears, double-click it and cancel the remaining print jobs asinstructed on steps two and three.
   
7. After all print jobs have been cancelled, reconnect the cable to the printer and then try to print again.
   
   
6. Ifthe print job does not complete, it may be necessary to disconnect theprinter cable, power off and on the printer and then reconnecting thecable.

You can cancel a print job from within Windows by going to Control Panel -> Printers and double-clicking on the appropriate printer. Right-click the print job you want to cancel and select Cancel from the context menu. Anything already sent to the printer will continue to print.

You can also cancel a print job from the printer by pressing Cancel on the control panel. This applies to whatever is currently printing.
(You may want to remove any paper from the paper tray first.)

Clicking the cancel print icon stops the job from continuing to spool, but whatever is still in the printer's memory will continue to print until exhaused or the job is cancelled from the printer's control panel.

Hi,

What you need to do is clear out the printing "QUEUE".

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Clearing the Print Queue in Windows
The printer is one of the slowest devices in a computer system. If you had to wait for it to print your document before you could resume writing, you would quickly go back to using a typewriter. To eliminate the delay, Windows reserves a portion of memory for something called a “print queue” (or spooler). The queue works on a first-in first-out basis. You can continue to use the computer and send jobs to the spooler as it feeds a steady stream of data to the printer.
Print queues are nice, except when something happens in the printer to cause it to stop functioning. Sometimes it is just a paper jam and sometimes it is a bit more serious. If you need to cancel the jobs in the print queue, you can simply double-click the printer icon (in the system tray down by the clock) and open the print queue. Depending upon the length of your document and how many documents are waiting to print, the printer icon may appear briefly or for a sustained period. (Note: This would be a good time to remove the paper from the printer before continuing.) If the icon is not there, you can manually open the queue.
Open the Print Queue

• Windows 98 - click Start, Settings, Printers
• Windows XP - click Start, Printers and Faxes
  or click Start, Control Panel, Printers and Faxes
• Windows Vista - Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Printers

Double-click to open the appropriate printer's queue. The Print dialog box will open. Here you will see a list of all of the jobs waiting to print, along with the status of each job. The first print job is at the top of the list.
To cancel a document in the list, right-click it and select Cancel Printing. Most often, it is better to cancel all of the jobs and then resend the documents to the printer.
Cancel All Documents

• Windows 98 - click Printer on the menu, select “Purge Print Documents”
• Windows XP - click Printer on the menu, select “Cancel All Documents”
• Windows Vista - click Printer on the menu, select “Cancel All Documents”

Please note that you must have Administrative rights in Windows XP and Vista to cancel print jobs. If you are the only user, you automatically have administrative rights. If you are on a multi-user computer, you must be an administrator. If are on a network and get a message saying that you do not have Administrative rights, find someone who does.
Under normal circumstances, printing documents are cancelled and will disappear from the queue. If one or more do not disappear, shutdown the computer and restart. When shutting down, you may get a message warning you that your print jobs will be lost if you continue. Tell Windows to shutdown anyway. When you restart, Windows may tell you that you have print jobs waiting. Tell Windows to delete them.
Before you resume work, open the Print Queue from the Start menu. You should find the queue empty. If you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista and the queue is not empty, you will be unable to print. Before trashing your computer, you can try to clear the queue using a secret Windows command.
Click Start, Run, and type “Net Stop Spooler” (without the quotes). Then press Enter. Shutdown the computer and restart. The print jobs should be removed. If they are not, shut down the computer again, take a deep breath, and then go for a long walk. The queue should be clear when you return. Note that you must restart the computer for your printers to resume normal operation.

This should solve your problem, Let me know how it works for you..

~~Jastababe~~

Click on control panel, then double click printers and faxes, then double click the printer you are using, a panel will appear, and you click on the document name you have entered, then click on document, then cancel and click yes when asked if you want to cancel the print job. It will take it a little while but it will clear the job you have entered.

To cancel a print job in Windows you can use one of the following two methods:

CANCELLING A PRINT JOB WITH THE PROGRESS METER:
When you send a print job to the printer, the Status Monitor will appear in the bottom right corner of your screen. Another printer icon for the PROGRESS METER will also appear in the taskbar while printing is taking place. This PROGRESS METER is there so you can manage print priorities or cancel print jobs.

1. Highlight the print job in the PROGRESS METER box.
2. Click on DOCUMENT and CANCEL, or, right click on the job name and left click CANCEL or DELETE.
3. Confirm cancelling the print job.

CANCELLING A PRINT JOB FROM THE PRINTERS WINDOW:
If no PROGRESS METER appears, you can access the document queue in this fashion:

1. Open START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, PRINTERS (START, CONTROL PANEL, PRINTERS and FAXES in Windows XP).
2. Right click on your Epson printer name, left click PURGE PRINT JOBS (98,ME), or CANCEL ALL DOCUMENTS (2000,XP). (Or, double-click on the printer name to see and modify the status of documents in queue.)
3. Confirm cancelling all documents.

Keep in mind that once information has been sent to the printer it resides in the spooling folders within Windows. It may a while for printing to stop as this data clears the system.

If the printer continues to print (ie multiple copies of a cancelled job, or garbled print) remove the rest of the paper from the printer and allow it to run out. Once an "out of paper" type error appears on your screen, cancel the documents. Once all print job information has deleted, reload the paper and press the paper feed button once to clear the red light and return the printer to a ready state.