Printer spooler will not start Error 1053

Hi,

I have had a Lexmark X4550 printer installed on my Windows 7 x64 inspiron for a few months now. Yeterday the printer wouldn't print which has never happened before. When I went into devices it said there was a problem with the printer and it needed troubleshooting. The troubleshooter couldn't find a solution. I found some suggested fixes online and have tried them all without success. I did however discover that the Printer Spooler was stopped. When I tried to restart it from services it came up with an error that said:-  

Windows could not start the printer spooler service on local computer 

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely manner.

I have checked that it is set to run automatically, and when I checked the dependancies I discovered that remote procedure call was stopped and set to manual. I reset it to automatic and started it sucessfully. This did not fix the printer spooler error however.

I have uninstalled the lexmark software and tried to remove the printer driver - this didn't help either.

I have also tried the following:-

Open a Command Prompt window

key the command;
       sc config spooler depend= RPCSS

restart the print spooler 

This also didnt help.

I tried clearing the print list from the spool folder but there was nothing in it.

I'm totally out of ideas now, any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I believe that Windows had a fix for this issue on XP and Vista but I cant find one for windows 7. Any help would be greatly appreciated.