spooler

Reel-filling device

A spooler is software that manages print jobs or other data by queuing them for sequential processing.

When you print a document, the spooler receives it, stores it temporarily, and feeds it to the printer in order, freeing you to continue working: The print spooler crashed and I had to restart it.

The term derives from spool, originally an acronym for "simultaneous peripheral operations online."

printing

printer

Machine producing paper copies

queueOrdered waiting line
printoutPhysical copy from device
tonerImaging powder or facial astringent

cartridge · inkjet · paper · tray · duplex · monochrome · resolution · thermal · multifunction · copier

system

daemon

Supernatural attendant entity

serviceAid or maintenance
background processTask without user interface
bufferingTemporary data accumulation

threading · multitasking · batch processing

queue

buffer

Protective intermediate space

backlogAccumulated unfinished work
enqueueAdd to waiting line
dequeueRemove from queue front

prioritization · sequence · processing · scheduling · bottleneck · waiting · order · stack · caching · interleave

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