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Have never seen a printer virus in 15 years of running LANs and computer consulting (although I did learn how to make the paper shoot out and the computer center's heavy duty tractor feed in a perfect parabellic arc back in the old college Fortran punch card days, LOL).

Most versions of Windows will keep trying to print anything they find in the SPOOL folder, even after a reboot, and even if it's a corrupt spool file and printing gobbledegook.

Here's how it works. You tell Word or something to print.

I doesn't send it directly to the printer, it sends it to a file(s) in the SPOOL folder on your hard disk, and the Windows spooler software dribbles it out to the printer as fast as the printer can accept it.

I don't remember exactly where it is in WinME, and I don't feel like getting out of bed to fire up my WinME machine, but look for a SPOOL folder in your C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.

There may be several folders under that, so be careful not to delete your print drivers.

You're looking for a folder with files that end in .SP*, (You have to have file extensions turned on).

Whack those files, run a regular scandisk, and reboot.