Print Queues

A print queue is a list of documents or print jobs waiting to be printed. When you click the Print button to send a document to a printer, you’re really sending it to the printer’s queue, where it waits its turn to be printed.

You can open a printer’s queue window to check the progress of print jobs that are printing; to stop printing; and to hold, resume, or cancel a specific print job.

✓ Tip

  • Although this section discusses printer queues, your fax modem also has a queue that works exactly the same way.

To open a printer’s queue window

1.
Open Printer Setup Utility and display the Printer List window (Figure 2).
2.
Double-click the name of the printer for which you want to open the queue. or Select the name of the printer for ...

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