press 'alt+f2'
type system-config-printer
right click on your printer
select view printer queue
1. For ubuntu the command is lpq 2. For redhat the command is lpstat
To check for deferred printing, you can access the print queue on your computer or printer. For Windows, open "Devices and Printers," find your printer, and double-click it to view the queue. On a Mac, go to "System Preferences," select "Printers & Scanners," and click on your printer to see its queue. Look for any documents listed that are pending or showing a "deferred" status.
Assuming that a paper-jam hasn't stalled the printer, is there a good cable connection. It could also be that there is a queue of data waiting to reach the printer. Try canceling the queue and restart the printer.
Printer buffering, or printer queuing.
Go to "my computer," then open "printers." By clicking on the printer name, you can check the queue and see if there is any information being sent to the printer.
queue
A printer driver is a bit of software that instructs a printer how to work. Without such a driver, the printer may not work, or print rubbish. A print queue forms when a print job is sent to the printer that is already printing. Once the first print job has been completed, the second print job is then printed.
A printer driver is a bit of software that instructs a printer how to work. Without such a driver, the printer may not work, or print rubbish. A print queue forms when a print job is sent to the printer that is already printing. Once the first print job has been completed, the second print job is then printed.
Print queue is when a list of documents or files have been sent to a printer for printing and they are waiting to be printed.
A printer driver is a bit of software that instructs a printer how to work. Without such a driver, the printer may not work, or print rubbish. A print queue forms when a print job is sent to the printer that is already printing. Once the first print job has been completed, the second print job is then printed.
On a printserver - the documents (or 'jobs') to be printed are held in a queue. Each job is printed in the order they were sent to the printer.
What it is basically is a line of people waiting, but those people are documents or what ever waiting for there turn to be printed.