Print Flush
…or just Download (version 1.3, zip file, 511 bytes)
If Print Flush solved a problem for you, please consider donating to BKaF! Print Flush is totally free, so please feel no obligation to donate.
NEW! I’m releasing Print Flush under GPLv3. That means that anyone can take, modify, adulterate, and redistribute it under any circumstances. Hopefully, Print Flush can evolve under GPLv3. For the interested, it is its own source code. Edit it with a text editor to make changes.
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Print Flush 1.3
Fix your printer with this small utility!
Has your printer quit working? Did you try to cancel a job and it broke the printer completely? I always do that. And the method to fix it usually involves rebooting, restarting the print spooler, trashing junk print files, and sometimes even more. Not anymore.
Introducing my lean-and-mean print spooler cleaner! It’s a simple batch file that takes all the steps necessary to unjam a printer queue and puts them at a double-click of the mouse.
Print Flush has a simple function: clean the print spool. If your printer’s driver is incorrectly installed, Print Flush cannot help you. If you have used your printer before and it worked fine then, but it doesn’t now, Print Flush can probably help you.
It also works with Vista.
…or just Download (version 1.3, zip file, 511 bytes)
Directions
- Save somewhere where you can find it.
- If you downloaded the zipped version… Unzip the file to the desktop or something
- Double-click the file
- Try printing again!
Version History
- Version 1.3 - Update Recommended!
- Fixes directory change bug which was erasing files in the directory in which Print Flush runs.
- Version 1.2
- Fixes print spooler dependency problems, such as those caused by Lexmark printers.
- Version 1.1
- Works with Windows 98, NT, 2000, and XP for certain, and I imagine many others, too.
- Version 1.0
- Initial release
15 Responses to “Print Flush”
TC
On December 22nd, 2007
9:27 am
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. THis was fabulous.
Sephra
On January 18th, 2008
10:05 am
Thanks works great 
Mark
On January 26th, 2008
4:12 pm
totally worked… good job. thanks!
Frank
On February 26th, 2008
4:25 pm
Geat program. Worked instantly.
Lynn
On March 25th, 2008
9:03 am
I was just about to throw this thing away. You ROCK!!!
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On June 2nd, 2008
7:45 pm
[...] Print Flush [...]
bill gates
On June 4th, 2008
5:54 am
download link doesn’t work.
bill gates
On June 4th, 2008
8:14 am
wo0-H0o!
working now. thanks for a great utility, Brad.
signed,
Bill Gates, Esq.
Kevin Squire
On June 17th, 2008
1:44 pm
Great little script.. may I make 2 suggestions…
Suggestion #1) add some comments at the top so that (a) should I want to see if there are any updates I can remember where to go and (b) maybe include a note about the licensing and directions?!
After I downloaded it, I added this to mind:
:: Latest version available at http://www.bradkovach.com/printflush/
:: Licensed under GPLv3 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
::
:: DIRECTIONS:
:: 1. Save somewhere where you can find it.
:: 2. Double-click the file
:: 3. Try printing again!
Suggestion #2) Add the text version of the license to the zip file. This is the preferred way as noted on the GNU site: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
Again - great work… make it real easy for me to share with my “not so techy” co-workers how to complete a simple, but techy solution.
Marilynn
On July 2nd, 2008
6:43 pm
Thank you so much for this great flusher, it did the job. I was almost stark raving mad last night, couldn’t print one darn photo. I had scanned something and tried to print but stalled out. Tried and tried to delete job in que and it was still there! All seemed hopeless. I had been looking forward to finally printing a few pics. Took me a while to get around to this and bought a good supply of paper and ink. Now today I’m very happy with the results and new jobs are printing fine.
B.K. and Friends ……….Woooooooot
Mike
On July 2nd, 2008
8:52 pm
it really works! gotta try this!
monica
On July 4th, 2008
3:31 pm
I wanted to send you a thank you for the printflush application. Our printer stopped printing on 6/30 because of a document stuck in the queue. I was ready to go through the hellacious task of uninstalling and reinstalling because none of the other tips I found online worked. I saw your reply on a board and decided to take a chance.
Worked like a charm!!
THanks so much.
Victor Nguyen
On July 20th, 2008
10:20 pm
Thank you, it worked. Finally I can used the printer. It works perfectly.
jay
On July 24th, 2008
10:45 am
wonderful, wonderful, thank you, thank you.
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Silvio Romero
On December 15th, 2007
6:18 pm
Thanks. It worked