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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. It also handles multiple print
jobs that come in from different computers on the network
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 alert you
about printer status. See page 1-6 for more information 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:
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To open it while you’re printing, click the
EPSON Spool
Manager
icon at the bottom of your desktop.
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You can open Spool Manager at any time by
double-clicking the
Spool Manager4
icon in the EPSON
program group.
Note:
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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