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Managing Print Jobs in Windows 3.1
Your Windows printer software includes two management utilities: the
Spool Manager and Despooler.
◗ 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.
◗ The Despooler also starts automatically when you send a job to the
printer. It displays on your screen to provide printer status information.
See Windows 3.1
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.
To open Spool Manager, do one of the following:
◗ To open it while you’re printing, click the EPSON Spool Manager icon
at the bottom of your desktop.
◗ You can open Spool Manager at any time by double-clicking the Spool
Manager4 icon in the EPSON program group.
You may not see the
Spool Manager icon if
Program Manager or
the current window is
maximized. Reduce
the window size to
see the Spool
Manager icon.
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