If you find spoolsv.exe check out the fix stop or kill spoolsv delete the files in C:\Windows\system32\Printers\ restart the printer service...and all is well!!
I was looking for a Java API to create PDFs and came across this link. Any experiences with iText? It looks pretty powerful for my purposes, but then I haven't researched anything else. Oh! yes, it's for a personal project, so I am looking for open source APIs