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It may still be driver caused....could it be down to one workstation or document format (i.e. PDF's).<br />
I'd enable detailed logging on printing - it would tell you the last job to be printed.<br />
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After the spoolers restarted are any jobs held with errors? Does setting the spooler to auto restart help?
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It may still be driver caused....could it be down to one workstation or document format (i.e. PDF's).
I'd enable detailed logging on printing - it would tell you the last job to be printed.

After the spoolers restarted are any jobs held with errors? Does setting the spooler to auto restart help?

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Check the driver dates - could it have auto-updated?
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Check the driver dates - could it have auto-updated?

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I have a user running Windows 7 that used easy transfer to move from Vista to 7 (a couple months ago). &nbsp;The user's print spooler keeps stopping. &nbsp;I read that it may be due to a corrupt printer driver, so I removed printers and deleted all drivers and reinstalled. &nbsp;This worked for about a week and now the spooler keeps stopping again. &nbsp;I Checked the event viewer and at the same time or 1 second before the print spooler stops the Windows error report event occurred. &nbsp;After the spooler stops, if I restart the spool, it will stay running for a matter of seconds before it stops again. &nbsp;A restart helps sometimes, but not always.<br />
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I attached a screen shot of the event log for the print spool stop<br />
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I have a user running Windows 7 that used easy transfer to move from Vista to 7 (a couple months ago).  The user's print spooler keeps stopping.  I read that it may be due to a corrupt printer driver, so I removed printers and deleted all drivers and reinstalled.  This worked for about a week and now the spooler keeps stopping again.  I Checked the event viewer and at the same time or 1 second before the print spooler stops the Windows error report event occurred.  After the spooler stops, if I restart the spool, it will stay running for a matter of seconds before it stops again.  A restart helps sometimes, but not always.

I attached a screen shot of the event log for the print spool stop

Windows error reporting causing print spooler to stop

Windows 7 is an operating system from Microsoft. Features include multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements.

Windows 7

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.