A printer spooler is a small application that manages the paper printing jobs sent from a computer to a printer or print server. A print spooler primarily enables assigning multiple jobs to a printer without affecting the application or the underlying system performance. A printer spooler eliminates the need for an application to be kept engaged, until its printing process is complete.
A printer spooler works when multiple print jobs are sent to a printer. Computer printers typically take time in printing, therefore other print jobs are stored in a buffer or print queue. When the printer is available for the next job or document, it retrieves pending print jobs from the print queue until all documents are printed. The printer spooler also enables users to view current jobs within the print queue, their status, size, time received and the ability to suspend and delete them.
By: Justin Stoltzfus Contributor, Reviewer. Click OK. Alternatively, click into the Start Search field on the Start menu and type services. A User Account Control permission request may appear.
If so, click Continue. If prompted, enter your user account password then click OK. This will open the Local Services window. Scroll down the list of services until you find the Print Spooler. Click on Print Spooler to highlight it. At the top-left of the window, click on ' Stop the service '. Once the Print Spooler service has stopped, indicated by the status disappearing, close the window. The Print Spooler has stopped on the local machine.
Repeat the instructions in Step 1 to open the Local Services console. Click on ' Start the service '. If Start is not listed but Restart is an option, click on Restart the service. Once the Print Spooler status is Started , close the window.
The Print Spooler service is now started on the local machine. Log in Not signed in yet? You can change fonts in the middle of a report when using the Windows spooler. You can change fonts at any time, even mid-line. When advancing lines, the runtime uses the height of the selected font to determine the height of the line, and the font must be associated with the selected printer.
The process used by Windows has the advantage that an application does not need to know how to drive an individual printer, but has the disadvantage that an application cannot choose to drive the printer directly. If you have an application that needs to control the printer directly, you have three choices:. Programs that use traditional spoolers usually work like this: The program sends text, data, and printer-control sequences to the spooler. The spooler saves the data on disk.
As resources become available, the spooler sends the information on to the port driver that manages the system's printer. The port driver delivers the data stream to the printer, which produces the document. Contents Exit focus mode. The print spooler supports the following data types: Enhanced metafile EMF.
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