Spooler is a tool that monitors jobs of any kind of application through plain text files simply containing the parameters needed to submit a report to a print queue. As a plus it can also convert a report into pdf format and send it attached to an email.
A utility that manages printers on a network by intercepting files until the printer is ready to print them.
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.
A program that stores files in a queue for outputting (such as to a printer).
Application that manages requests or jobs submitted to it for execution. Spoolers process the submitted requests in an orderly fashion from a queue. A print spooler is a common example of a spooler.
A type of SERVER which is used to process jobs being sent to a computer printer. A spooler sits between a computer and a printer. When the job is printed from the computer, it goes to the spooler, not to the printer; the spooler then sends it to the printer. This is done if the printer is slow (so the computer will not be tied up while the printer is printing the job), or if the spooler is required to perform some kind of action, such as replacing low-res OPI images with their high-res counterparts, before the job reaches the printer.
a client to a printer or a printer supervisor, depending on implementation
a set of programs which manage print jobs
a set of service programs that control a queue of files, adding files to it at one end and removing them at the other end for despatch to the destination
A print spooler provides a queueing system for files you want to print. This way files can be printed while your computer performs other tasks.
output: Software and/or hardware that takes over a task so that the CPU is not tied up. Most often associated with printers where the spooler intercepts the data being sent to the printer and stashes it in RAM or on disk and sends it to the printer at a slow rate the printer can accept. That way you can resume using your computer more quickly. Apple uses the term "print server". The term comes from an old IBM acronym, "Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line".
Area where data used in printing is held before going to the printing device. Can be a specific part of a computer's random-access memory (RAM) or its hard drive. See Queue.
The space where printing data is held in a computer's memory or hard drive while queuing to a printing device.
A method by which a computer can store data and feed it gradually to an external device, such as a printer, which is operating more slowly than the computer.