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Restart-PrintJob



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Restart-PrintJob', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

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SYNOPSIS

Restarts a print job on the specified printer.

SYNTAX


Restart-PrintJob [-PrinterObject] <CimInstance> [-ID] <UInt32> [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Restart-PrintJob [-InputObject] <CimInstance> [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Restart-PrintJob [-PrinterName] <String> [-ID] <UInt32> [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-ComputerName <String>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf]
[<CommonParameters>]



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DESCRIPTION


The Restart-PrintJob cmdlet restarts a print job on the specified printer.


You can specify the print job to restart by specifying the PrinterName and ID parameters, by specifying printer object and job ID parameter, or by specifying the job object
as an input.


You cannot use wildcard characters with Restart-PrintJob. You can use Restart-PrintJob in a Windows PowerShell remoting session.


You do not need administrator privileges to use Restart-PrintJob.



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RELATED LINKS

Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=289476
Get-PrintJob
Remove-PrintJob
Suspend-PrintJob
Resume-PrintJob

REMARKS

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Examples


Example 1: Restart a selected print job

PS C:\> Restart-PrintJob -PrinterName "PrinterName" -ID 1



This command restarts the print job with an ID of 1 on the printer named PrinterName.




Example 2: Restart a print job by using printer object and the print job ID

PS C:\>$printer = Get-Printer -PrinterName "PrinterName"


PS C:\>Restart-PrintJob -PrinterObject $printer -ID 1



This set of commands retrieves the printer object in to a variable ($printer) using Get-Printer, and then passes the content of the variable to Restart-PrintJob to restart
the print job with the ID of 1 on the printer contained in the printer object.




Example 3: Restart print job using job object

PS C:\>$printJob = Get-PrintJob -PrinterName "PrinterName:" -ID 1


PS C:\>Restart-PrintJob -InputObject $printJob



This set of commands retrieves the print job with an ID of 1 in to a variable ($printJob) using Get-PrintJob, and then passes the contents of the variable to
Restart-PrintJob to restart the print job on a printer by using a print job object.