Updated: March 10, 2023
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by Oleksandr Kamennyi
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A document that cannot be deleted is preventing me from printing further documents

Hello, thank you for using Howly. I’ll be happy to help you out! May I ask your name?

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Nice to meet you, *****!

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My printer is a MFC-J4540DW

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What troubleshooting have you done so far?

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My printer has a document that wont print and cant be deleted and hence I cannot use my printer

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Have you already tried to fix that?

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yes

What have you done so far?

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I have gone to the document to be printed queue and tried to delete the document

What happens when you're trying to delete it?

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nothing happens, it just tells me that it is deleting the document *when in actual fact nothing is happening

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Please, reboot your PC and try to print once again

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ie under "status" it reads "deleting"
ok

Let me know about the results

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nothign has happened, I still cant print

Okay, I see
Could you specify, please, whether have you tried to delete files from the queue with these steps:

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Click Hardware and Sound => Devices and Printers.
  3. Right-click on the Brother Printer Driver and choose to See What's
    Printing.
  4. Click on the specific job to highlight it. Then click Document => Cancel.
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I did that and shpwed that nothing was in the print queue
printing has now commenced

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Oh, so is it working properly now?

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i will try and print another document to see if OK

Okay, I'm waiting

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Yep all working now, Thank you

No problem
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