Spooling problem when sending a print job to a printer via an Electron App on Windows 7

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I've got an Electron Application which I'm compiling to a windows .exe via electron-packager . --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --overwrite

The problem I'm facing is when the application, running on Windows 7, sends a print job to a Xerox printer, the print job in the queue has a status of Spooling and never changes.

Spooling

I've tried restarting the Print Spooler service via the Services panel in windows - this helps me to remove the print job which is stuck, but doesn't allow the print job to print.

A test print (Print Test Page) seems to work without getting stuck in the Spooling status.

Why is my HTML document (which consists of an image and text) getting stuck in Spooling status?

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1 Answers

Found out why this was happening.

I was launching the electron app from a network/mapped drive (i.e. on virtual box, a drive that was mapped between my host & the virtual machine)

You must launch the electron application from a local drive on the machine, not a network drive

Github comment which directed me to this issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/24734#issuecomment-711376100

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