Shared printer stops working on clients but not host computer

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Published on 2010-02-05T02:04:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 10:13 UTC
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I have a Brother MFC-7420 USB all-in-one laser printer. It is plugin via USB to my Windows 7 x64 machine. I have it shared to a few users on my home network.

My wife's laptop running Vista x64 can normally print fine to the printer. However it seems that every day or two, when she pushes print on a something it just sits in her laptop's print queue and never makes it to my desktop.

The only thing that seems to fix this is if she restarts her laptop. Not a big deal but this problem is sort of annoying.

I don't know if this affects but the laptop is put into hibernate at night and I turn my desktop off at night.

Does anyone know why this happens and if there is something easy to do to fix the problem besides restart the computer?

EDIT: I was thinking that maybe my wife's laptop loses its connection to the printer. Is there a way to reset a connection to a shared printer? Or maybe reauth with the printer?

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