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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

print queue

A print queue is a list of work waiting to be printed by a printer spooler. Normally it is a list of the files holding data ready for printing. Each file will hold the data from a particular task which will be sent to the printer by the printer spooler when the printer is free. A task could be a single document or a large batch of commercial documents.

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queuestatusreadystatus barbufferprint bufferbackground jobjob queueprint jobprint spooler
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