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dipesh2778
May 31, 2024Copper Contributor
Print queue won't display active print jobs sometimes on the local Win 11 PC,
We have deployed a Lexmark printer over the network via a Print Server. Users sometimes won't see the active print jobs when they need to reprint from their local computer which is Windows 11. We tes...
printertales
Jan 24, 2026Brass Contributor
This is a pretty common Windows 11 + print server quirk. Usually it’s the new Win11 print queue behavior caching things weirdly. Quick fix is to restart the Print Spooler on the user’s PC, and make sure the printer is connected via the shared server queue, not a locally recreated one. Updating the Lexmark driver on the print server (and re-pushing it) also helps, Win10 is just more forgiving here.