Printer logs windows server 2003

Id love to be able to browse deleted print jobs and see who printed them. We are also using a Windows server system for our print server. I have a horrible feeling they are not being logged as a tick box isn't ticked for logging print spooler information.

If it is an HP printer, you can log into the printer with the ip address in an internet browser and it keeps logs of who printed what document. I have a bunch and you might not get much if you are using a print server. I checked a number and just not getting that kind of information. I'm not really where else to look. All print jobs will now show up in the System Event log. Now if anyone know why Microsoft insists on making each version of the OS more unfriendly with even more clicks to complete a task, please let me know.

To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. To grant or deny access to specific computers, groups of computers, or domains, click Edit under IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions. In the IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions dialog box that is displayed, complete one of the following procedures:.

The computer, group of computers, or domain that you selected is added to the Granted list. The computer, group of computers, or domain that you specified is added to the Denied list. A list of all the printers on the print server is displayed in your browser window. In the list of available printers, click the name of the printer that you want to manage. A list of all the printers on the print server appears. In the list of available printers, click the name of the printer that you want to connect to.

To connect to the printer, click Connect under Printer Actions. When you connect to the printer, the print server downloads the appropriate printer driver to your computer. Around that time we changed the way the job is paused for analysis so now there is only one event This event, found in the Operational log, pops up in totally normal print environments and sometimes causes admins concern.

It is completely safe to ignore. This event, found in the Operational log, occurs when the print job was canceled by the user or by another application other than PaperCut. Let us know! Feel free to leave a comment below or visit our Support Portal for further assistance. As a company full of techies we know how important a well supported product is. Global English. Which one's right for you? Let's help you find the right product. Say you want to get a quick picture of what's happening with different printers on your network.

For example, say you want to know which printers currently have jobs in their print queues. Using the Print Filters feature of Print Management, this is easy—a lot easier than browsing all the print queues of all your network printers! Figure 8: Using the default printer filter named Printers With Jobs.

Note that both Accounting Printer 1 and Sales Printer 2 have one job in their queue, and that the Accounting printer is ready but the Sales printer is in an error state. Opening the printer queue for the Sales printer lets you see the details of what's in the queue:. Figure 9: Test page is stuck in the queue for Sales Printer 2.

That doesn't tell us what's wrong with the printer of course—maybe that could be a feature request for R3! Anyway, we could also quickly find out which printers are not ready by selecting the Printers Not Ready node, another default printer filter:. Figure Using the default printer filter named Printers Not Ready. As expected, Sales Printer 2 shows up here as the only printer currently not ready on our network.

The third default printer filter is named All Printers and this displays all the printers currently on your network we have three on BOX and two on BOX which makes five in total. What's even more useful is that you can create your own custom printer filters to display whatever you want to know about printers on your network.

Let's see how this works. This starts the New Printer Filter Wizard, and let's say we want to create a filter that will display all printers on our network that are to be used for color printing only, and also indicate the number there are of such printers in parentheses beside the filter name.

To do this, fill out the first screen of the wizard as follows:. Figure Creating a custom filter to display all color printers on the network.

Click Next and select the Field drop-down listbox.