Frank wrote: > I assumed (yes I know <g>) that all Windows had some kind of print > spooler that would spool a print job to disk or memory and then send > it to the printer in the background.
It does. On all printer drivers I've seen, there's a bit under the "Advanced" tab that determines whether applications print directly to the printer or whether they print to the spooler, which then frees the application from waiting for the print job to complete. This seems to default to spooling the jobs. Perhaps it has been changed on your machine, or you're using a bad driver. Though given WinNT etc have a print spooler service, I don't think it's actually a function of the printer driver itself. You could also check your "Print Spooler" service is running! In principle there could be problems with the spool directory- real files are created on the disk that I found once, and if they can't be created then it may fall back to direct printing without telling you. Never seen this happen though. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/
