definition print spooler
So how do I find this file ?? ----- A service that intercepts print output from an application and redirects it to a temporary file. The print spooler also read these temporary files (called spool files) and sends them to the printer, when it is available. Generally, an application can generate print output many times faster than even the fastest print device can actually print. Without a print spooler service, the application would have to operate at the speed of the print device. Printer drivers run as part of the print spooler service. So, a defective printer driver can cause the print spooler service to fail, or in some situations, prevent it from starting at all. If the print spooler service is not running, you can't print and no printers show in the Printers or Printers and Faxes window. --- In computing a buffer is a portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device. The buffer provides a waiting station where data can reside while the slower device catches up. Material is only added and deleted at the ends of the area; there is no random access . The most common spooling application is print spooling. In print spooling, documents are loaded into a buffer (usually an area on a disk), and then the printer Because the documents are in a buffer where they can be accessed by the printer, the user is free to perform other operations on the computer A computer is a device or machine for processing information according to a program a compiled list of instructions. The information to be processed may represent numbers, text, pictures, or sound, amongst many other types. while the printing takes place in the background. Spooling also lets users place a number of print jobs on a queue In computing, especially printing terminology, queuing refers to lining up jobs for a computer or device. For example, if you want to print a number of documents, the operating system (or a special print spooler) queues the documents by placing them in a special area called a print buffer or print queue. The printer then pulls the documents off the queue one at a time. Another term for this is print spooling. ---- A program that controls spooling -- putting jobs on a queue and taking them off one at a time. Most operating systems come with one or more spoolers, such as a print spooler for spooling documents. In addition, some applications include spoolers. Many word processors, for example, include their own print spooler. A good print spooler should allow you to change the order of documents in the queue and to cancel specific print jobs. ---- print spooler Software that manages printing in the computer. When an application is requested to print a document, it quickly generates the output on disk and sends it to the print spooler, which feeds the print images to the printer at slower printing speeds. The printing is then done in the background while the user interacts with other applications in the foreground ---- Print Manager In Windows 3.x, the software that prints documents in the background. It is also used if the computer is connected to a network and the printer is shared with other users. Print Manager is the Windows print spooler, which accepts the incoming print jobs, stores them and prints them in the background. ---- print spooler When a print job is sent to the printer, if it is already printing another file, the computer reads the new file and stores it, usually on the hard disk or in memory, for printing at a later time. Spooling allows multiple print jobs to be given to the printer at one time. ---- spool To spool (which stands for "simultaneous peripheral operations online") a computer document or task list (or "job") is to read it in and store it, usually on a hard disk or larger storage medium so that it can be printed or otherwise processed at a more convenient time (for example, when a printer is finished printing its current document). One can envision spooling as reeling a document or task list onto a spool of thread so that it can be unreeled at a more convenient time. The idea of spooling originated in early computer days when input was read in on punched cards for immediate printing (or processing and then immediately printing of the results). Since the computer operates at a much faster rate than input/output devices such as printers, it was more effective to store the read-in lines on a magnetic disk until they could be conveniently printed when the printer was free and the computer was less busy working on other tasks. Actually, a printer has a buffer but frequently the buffer isn't large enough to hold the entire document, requiring multiple I/O operations with the printer. The spooling of documents for printing and batch job requests still goes on in mainframe computers where many users share a pool of resources. On personal computers, your print jobs (for example, a Web page you want to print) are spooled to an output file on hard disk if your printer is already printing another file. > > > You talking about the printer spool folder .What about the printer > temp folder or other temp folders ?? > > This old Epson that a pictures was found, was it like that in the old > days or what?I know we have this other set up and is a Epson870 and > there is no pictures in > > C:\EPSON > C:\WINDOWS\spool > > > But may be that is not the case on all printer or there more than one > printer temp folder . > > > My buddy Uses MS-DOS like most any thing he does on the computer !! > Did he some how converted a pictures or what. > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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