rem Did you ever pull the paper out of your printer to stop it from printing? 
rem Then surly next thing you did was power cycling the printer to empty the 
rem printer buffer and then cancelling the print job from the printer spooler 
rem on your PC. The print job sometimes remains a long time in the printer 
rem queue before finally disappearing and allowing the next print job to be
rem processed. This is annoying on my box it takes up to 5 minutes. Even rebooting
rem the PC doesn`t help as it doesn`t empty the printer spooler.


@echo off
:$reference http://www.dostips.com/
:$reference http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946737
net stop spooler
del /q "%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd"
del /q "%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl"
net start spooler
pause