13. Print Spooling

• When a printing job goes directly to the printer, its success relies on the amount of memory inside the printer.

• Just like regular PCs, laser printers allow to add more physical memory to the device.

• To eliminate dependency on the amount of RAM in the printer, a job spooling technique is used.

• The sooling is controlled by the Print Spooler service.

• At the command prompt, the following two commands can be used to start and stop the Spooler service:

      net start spooler
      net stop spooler
  

  Note: on Vista and Windows 7 these commands require Administrator's privilege.