How to reload printers in coldfusion without restarting service?

To use a network printer ColdFusion is going to need to be running under a domain account that has permissions to network resources. The default user that the ColdFusion Windows Service runs under is localSystem. This user account normally has lots of permissions to the local system but no permissions on the network. The usual solution is to create a domain account for this purpose and then set the ColdFusion Windows service to run as that user in the Services Control Panel.

I recently installed a printer on my server machine, and it was detected right away without any issues.I am using CF10 on a Windows 7 64-bit system. So the following code listed my printer without any restart of the service at all:

<cfdump var="#GetPrinterInfo()#">

Hope this would help.

I have worked with Java and printers and as stated by daveloyall in the comments the problem might come from Java.Tests have shown that when you launch a java application, it takes a snapshot of the current printers list and never updates it so the only way to refresh the printer list is to restart the application.

Yes, a sudo would sort it out...Or, the sysadmin setting the synch to a shorter interval (but that would increase the CPU time allocated).