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Spooling on Printer

Spooling is a usefull option if you want to print a large amount of
data. This function saves the print jobs to hard disk in a queue before
sending them to the printer. Consider spooling as the traffic
controller of printing—it keeps all the print jobs from trying to print
at the same time.

By default, spooling is enabled in Widows xp.

You can choose two options:

1. start imediate printing

2. Wait until last page is spooled.

An analogy for these choices is the actions you can take in a grocery
store’s cashier line. Let’s say you have an entire cart full of
groceries and the guy behind you has only a few things. Even if you’ve
started loading your groceries onto the belt, as long as the cashier
hasn’t started with your items, you can choose to let the person with
fewer items go before you, or you can make him wait. If the cashier has
already started totaling your groceries, then you don’t have that
choice. Windows XP Professional spooling options allow you to configure
your print environment similarly.

In the Advanced tab, you can leave the Start Printing Immediately option selected, or you can

choose the Start Printing After Last Page Is Spooled option. If you choose the latter option,

a smaller print job that finishes spooling first will print before your print job, even if your

job started spooling before it did. If you specify Start Printing Immediately, the smaller job will

have to wait until your print job is complete.

The other spooling option is Print Directly to the Printer, which bypasses spooling altogether.

This option doesn’t work well in a multiuser environment where multiple print jobs are sent

to the same device. However, it is useful in troubleshooting printer problems. If you can print to

a print device directly, but you can’t print through the spooler, then you know that your spooler

is corrupt or has other problems.

As I described before, when a user prints a document, the print
job creates a temporary file on the disk for the document being
printer. After that the application can be used for other tasks and the
system sends the temporary file to the print device.

In windows, the print spool service s responsible for managing the
print environment. If yo can't delete a print job from the print queue
than you many have a corrupt queue.

This problem may be solved by restarting the print spooler services.Follow these steps to perform the task:

1. Go to Start Menu

2. Control Pannel

3. Performance an maintinance

4. Administrator toools

Actually when you restart the printing spool services, you are going to reboot the printing envoiroment.

Sometimes, you may want to move the printer spooler folder. The folder
location should be changed if you are facing printing problem in
windows and there is no hardware problem. Also if you are running out
of space on drive C, spool directroy should be moved to another
partition. To change the spool dierctory:

1.Start Menu

2. Printer and Faxes

3. Choose file

4. Server properties

5. Click advance tab

6. Enter the path of the new spool folder

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