Managing Print Jobs
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Managing Print Jobs in Windows 3.1
Your Windows printer software includes two management utilities:
the Spool Manager and Despooler.
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The Spool Manager starts automatically when you send a job to
the printer. It allows you to print in the background while you
continue to work on your computer and to hold jobs to print at a
later time. If you’re using your printer on a network, it also
handles multiple print jobs that come in at the same time. See
the next section for details.
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The Despooler also starts automatically when you send a job to
the printer. It displays on your screen to provide printer status
information. See
for details on the
Despooler.
Using the Spool Manager
The Spool Manager works like the Windows Print Manager. When
you send a job to your printer, your printer software creates a
temporary print job file, stores it in the C:\TEMP or
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory, and assigns it to a print queue. The
software then sends the file to your printer at the right time.
