Printer Won't Accept Print Jobs

There are a lot of points where you can have a problem in printing. Almost all of them end up with a "printer that won't print"

Before you go making any changes, I always like to know what is wrong with the system. So I start with the printer and work backwards to complicated software glitches... usually I find the answer without rebuilding the entire system Here the steps used to isolate a printing problem.

Printer Won't accept print jobs