Here's our Windows 95/98 Tip for.. April 2, 2003
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Adjusting the Printer Timeout
If you send a job to your printer while it's still warming up, Windows lets you know that there's a problem and then says that it will try printing again after a specific period of time. This is the printer's Timeout Period, and you can adjust it if Windows pesters you about this more frequently than you'd like.

Go to Start--Settings--Printers, right-click your regular printer, and choose Properties. Click the Details tab, and you'll see two Timeout numbers at the bottom of the box.

The one labeled Not Selected sets the period of time that Windows will wait before it stops trying to send the print job and notifies you. Transmission Retry is the amount of time (following notification) that Windows will wait before trying to print again. Change the settings as you'd like, then click OK.