Network printing problems

[athome]

Please help! I keep getting the following message when anyone prints to any printer on a server 2003 running termservices. The guy before me set up the server and is running termservices with DC(I know). Problem just started. After printing to the printers successfully, the stop and then nothing. I reset the print server and nothing.

Note: I saw a print job from 1969 and thought that was the problem, but still there. no viruses or spyware found. HELP!

The document PEACHW - FCG - Invoice owned by marble_s failed to print on printer \\kt4201c4\P2. Data type: NT EMF 1.008. Size of the spool file in bytes: 327680. Number of bytes printed: 0. Total number of pages in the document: 1. Number of pages printed: 0. Client machine: \\GSPSRVR. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 0. The operation completed successfully.

[cluberti]

A 6161 error from a print spooler or a print job means the process is out of GDI resources. This would indicate that a print driver in the spooler is allocating GDI resources to create the print job, and not releasing them when it's done (this is normal for crappy print drivers, especially older HP and Lexmark drivers). Your best bet is to consider a few things:

1) Don't put your print spooler on a domain controller

2) Use *only* inbox drivers *wherever* possible - if you *have* to install a vendor driver, test it on a test print server first to see how it will act

3) Have a secondary print server that matches your production print server so you can test drivers, changes, etc before changing production - you can use the Microsoft printmig tool to do this.