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Fortunately, the waiting doesn’t necessarily make you less productive, since

you can return to work on your PC, or even quit the application and go
watch TV. An invisible program called the print spooler supervises this
background printing process. The spooler collects the document that’s being
sent to the printer, along with all the codes the printer expects to receive,

and then sends this information, little by little, to the printer.

To see the list of documents waiting to be printed—the ones that have been
stored by the spooler—open the printer’s window (Figure 13-4).

Tip
While the printer is printing, a printer icon appears in the system tray. As a shortcut to opening the
printer’s window, just double-click that icon.

This window lists the documents currently printing and waiting—the print

queue. They print in top-to-bottom order.

You can manipulate documents in the queue in any of these ways during
printing:

Put one on hold. To pause a document, right-click its name, and

then choose Pause from the shortcut menu (Figure 13-4). When
you’re ready to let the paused document continue to print, right-
click its listing and choose Resume.