Print Server unable to send job to printer

Hi All,

Would like to ask about one of our shared printers. We have 8 printers connected to the network and shared from a 2008 R2 server.

Only since yesterday, this particular printer won't print. The server receives the job and has assigned to the designated printer. The job has "printing" as status, but nothing comes out of this printer. This happens until the printer status itself goes to offline and the job errors out - printer still physically online.

Restarted the printer and the job pushes thru. After a couple of minutes, another print job gets stuck in the queue for the same machine. Same status, same situation. Restarted the machine again and it prints. Odd thing, the server is able to see the printer as ping requests are received and replied to.

I've already did a cold reset on the machine. Connected my laptop to it via USB and cross-cable which resulted in successful printouts all the time. Even removed the printer from the server and reinstalled fresh. It prints during the first time then stops afterwards.

Even a test print from the server itself gets stuck. Got this entry on eventviewer for the test page:

"Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 2250. This network connection does not exist."

The connection DOES EXIST as the server is able to ping the machine. 

For the offline status of the machine, I read somewhere that I need to uncheck SNMP. I did and it was back online, however, the print issue continues.