Monitor print queue for job size

Hi,
Problem: Occasionally, some print queues are found with a job that is spooling uncontrolled. Job will reach 2/3GB which will cause services to under perform and sometimes crash.
We are looking at understanding the reason why the file is spooling uncontrolled. I believe it is something to do with the fact some of the users are roaming users and when moving site, when arriving to a new site they should get the correct printers for
that site. It is happening that this is not being applied so they print to the printer on the previous site where they were, which seems to cause this behavior.... anyway.. I do not have any more logic details around this.. still exploring..
The question today is, can I set some sort of monitoring on the local print server to alert me when a job on any print queue has reached a specific size?
Or perhaps delete the job automatically if it does reach this threshold.
Thank you

On Server 2012 use the powershell commands included with the product. For 2008R2 and prior use the WMI Interfaces and the scripts included with the OS
prnjobs.vbs to list job size and ID, then when the size is excessive the same script is used to delete the job.
This information at the scripting center looks like what you wish to accomplish
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/9b07ec17-a3ae-427d-a417-c95f05fc515f
Alan Morris formerly with Windows Printing Team

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