Now, printed history on Windows doesn’t get saved automatically, and you’ll have to manually enable the logging of these prints. You can view the recent prints in the printer settings after enabling logging, but that doesn’t allow you to check what documents were printed a long time ago. And that’s where Event Viewer comes in. Once you enable logging there, it will start saving all the information related to your prints. First, I’ll mention the steps for turning on the document printed history in Windows, and then we’ll see how to view it.
How Do I Enable Print History?
Enabling print history is a pretty simple task that needs to be done just once. Once the option to save history is turned on, you can easily see all of your current, previous, and ongoing prints. Having said that, below will be the steps to enable print history:
Via Printer Settings
Remember that this will still not save all of your prints, but only the most recent ones. Therefore, it is recommended to use Event Viewer for this purpose.
Via Event Viewer
Now Windows will save a log file of all the documents that you print from your computer.
How do I View Printed History in Windows?
The complete printed document history can be seen in the Event Viewer. Secondly, if you just want to check the recent print history, then it can be done through the printer settings. I’ll mention the steps for both below:
Via Printer Settings
Via Event Viewer
All the information related to your printed documents like date & time, source, event ID and more will be shown here. And that was all about how you can enable and view your printed document history on Windows. If you’re having some problems with any step, let us know in the comments below.
