Print Services unresponsive suddenly

Gurus,
I have this issue with print services.
It was working fine, and we have not done anything specific that would change any settings or anything, however, it has suddenly become unresponsive.
Tried to pull up a report in workspace and it gave the error.
tried to stop and start print services, and it would not start at all.
I went to SERVICES and then tried to manually start print services, but it just says STARTING, and then it does not start at all.
what logs would be helpful in this case?
any thing that i might have overlooked which would help me fix the issue?
Thanks

You will probably have to kill the process in task manager and then start the service again, it is not unsual for that to happen with the print server, if it rarely happens then I wouldn't worry about it.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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