This is the intermediary device between a computer and a printer. In the old days, if you had no spooler, your computer would wait as the printer slowly printed a document. You would send your print data to a spooler to accept the data and save it temporarily to hard disk or memory while it deals with the slow printer for you. Nowadays, print-server is a more current term for describing this type of device. Most modern operating systems contain spooler processes that take care of printing in the background and you don't notice any delays anyway.
The process of transferring data into a storage location before sending it to a peripheral device like a printer. In this way, the sending computer can continue to operate until the printer is available or the printing is done.
Acronym for : Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line. The queuing of requests in a file while the computer's resources are freed up.
The way in which a print job travels from your computer to the printer.
(1) The system function of putting files or jobs into disk storage for later processing or printing. (2) To reduce, through the use of auxiliary storage as buffer storage, processing delays when transferring data between peripheral equipment and the processors of a computer.
Acronym for simultaneous peripheral operations on-line, spooling refers to putting jobs in a buffer, a special area in memory or on a disk where a device can access them when it is ready. Spooling is useful because devices access data at different rates. The buffer provides a waiting station where data can rest while the slower device catches up. The most common spooling application is print spooling. In print spooling, documents are loaded into a buffer and then the printer pulls them off the buffer at its own rate. Because the documents are in a buffer where they can be accessed by the printer, you can perform other operations on the computer while the printing takes place in the background. Spooling also lets you place a number of print jobs on a queue instead of waiting for each one to finish before specifying the next one.
transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
Process where the computer takes files being sent to output devices, such as an engraver, and puts it in electronic queue, or waiting area, to be produced in turn. File is transferred from main production into the background, allowing the program to handle working on another file. See multiprocessing.
disk space dedicated to handling a dynamic set of files which are in transit between one location and another, e.g. a print spool, a reader spool
The file in which all the headers for a group are stored.
The first step in printing, in which the printer software converts the print data into codes that your printer understands. This data is then sent directly to the printer or to the print server.
The first step in printing, in which the printer driver converts the print data into codes the Stylus Photo RX600 understands. This data is then sent to it directly or to the print server.
News servers store their articles locally in one fashion or other. One old-fashioned storage method is to have just one file per article. That's called a "traditional spool".
A program or device that controls the flow of data to an outputting device such as a printer. Spooling means that a user can send data to a device which is already occupied and can rest assured that the data will be passed onto the desired destination as soon as possible. Spooling of printer output is achieved on a LAN by means of a print server. It is also important in WANs for providing a buffer for time non-critical applications such as Electronic Mail and File Transfer.
To send a file (or other data) to a queue. Generally used in conjunction with printers, but might also be used for other things (mail for example). The term is reported to be an acronym for ``Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line'', but according to the Jargon File it may have been a backronym (something made up later for effect).
A location on the hard drive where files are temporarily stored during the process of printing. Files are transferred from this temporary location to the printer
(Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line) See Print Spooler.
Print the result of a query command SQL SPOOL out Sends results to a file called “out
Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line.To perform a peripheral operation while the computer is busy with other work.The most common use of spooling is with the printer; files are sent to the print spooler, which organizes a queue and then prints one file after another.
Refers to a queue of jobs for printers.
ave rinting peration ine. A queue for print jobs waiting for access to an output device.
A queue of files waiting to be printed.