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Spooling in reference to a printer refers to where your documents are held until they are printed. Once you click the print button, your items are written into a separate directory. They stay there until the printer prints them. This frees up the rest of your computer to concentrate on other things.
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Sending print jobs to a buffer instead of immediately to the printer?
Spooling
That advanced personal computer wil have spooling as a standard feature in the future?
All computers today have spooling services. If it did not you would not be able to print to more than one printer.
What do you mean by spooling?
Spooling is a way of buffering something through a file. If you directly access the printer with a program, then the program is tied up until printing is finished. But you could send the output of the program to a file and the operating system can send it to the printer as needed in the background.
What is the meaning of spooling?
Spooling is putting jobs in a buffer area, whether in memory or on disk, where they can be accessed when a device is ready. For example, print jobs are spooled to a buffer to be printed when the printer is ready.
My printer is spooling even though it's ready. What should i do?
Check the cables, check the power, make sure the printer is the default printer so your software isn't looking for another printer that isn't there anymore.
Is necessary when a printer does not have its own internal memory?
When a printer does not have its own internal memory, the computer memory must do the work. The work is then transferred in chunks that the printer can handle. This does compromise the speed of the process.
What is print spooling?
When a print job or print command is initiated, the data involved is stored in memory while the printer slowly processes it.
What is spooling in operating system with diagram?
spooling is a term used in computers and it means place an operation that is being run by the operating system in a temporary are until another action is taken. For example sending a print job from your computer to the printer. The operating system places the sent job in a temporary folder until action is taken by the printer. Thanks
Why is spooling necessary for batch programming?
advantage of spooling
Explain the differences in a printer and a printer device?
Both are the same..
What is spooling in computer programming?
Spooling is basically a means of saving information that cannot be handled immediately. For instance, when printing a document, the document has to undergo a conversion process. This can often be a lengthy process when printing directly to the printer, thus a print spooler handles the actual conversion and queues your document ready for printing when the printer is ready. This allows you to continue working while the spooler works in the background.
If every user working on a UNIX how do printers work?
Printers rely on a software process known as spooling; this allows multiple users to "share" the printer by only allowing a single print job at a time to actually use the printer.
