PDFCreator seems to hold queue and then write PDFs in batches

Hi,


We’re running PDFCreator as a service on our printserver. It’s currently running under the Domain Administrator account and it’s shared to the clients over the network.

Printing PDFs works well but every now and then it seems to hold all print jobs and then jam them out all at the same time.

I get called a lot that printing PDFs doesnt work again and when I login to the printserver the whole queue suddenly goes through and when checking the PDF folder all the latest PDF’s have the same Created/Mofied date.

Any ideas?

Hi bentodegier,

probably we have the same problem; we installed PDFCreator as a service, running with Domain User grants for printing on a predefined share.
When users print on this printer, the document goes into the pdf queue and stay here until we login into the server and open the pdf monitor.

May you solve this problem?

Hi,


it is recommended to have a user auto logon and start the PDFCreator, then locking the screen.
Or is this not an option for you? Running PDFCreator as a service is not fully supported (but it used to work pretty well).

best regards