To view the number of items in the print queue on a Windows 7 computer, click on the "Start" button, then select "Devices and Printers." Find your printer in the list, right-click on it, and choose "See what's printing." A window will open displaying the print queue, showing how many documents are waiting to print.
Allow users to access and modify documents waiting to print
Start->Printer and Faxes, double click on the printer (Epson Stylus R280). then click on Printer in the main menu and then Cancel all documents.
Spooled Documents are simply documents that are waiting to be printed. When you tell your computer to print a document there is a process that it must go through. If you tell it to print another one before the first one is done printing it will take it's place in line (or be spooled up) waiting for the printer to complete the previous task.
To delete documents waiting to be printed, open the print queue by clicking on the printer icon in your system tray or accessing it through the Control Panel (Windows) or System Preferences (Mac). In the print queue window, you will see a list of pending documents. Right-click on the document you want to remove and select "Cancel" or "Delete." Confirm the action if prompted, and the document will be removed from the queue.
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.
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.
A printer buffer is a temporary storage area in a computer or printer that holds data before it is sent to the printer for processing. This allows the computer to continue operating and sending additional print jobs without waiting for the printer to finish the current job. By managing the flow of data, a printer buffer helps improve printing efficiency and reduces the risk of data loss or bottlenecks in communication.
I recommend not to plug the printer to your computer yet. Insert the installation CD that came with the printer in your computer. Run the software. It will also show you instructions on how to setup the printer itself. Follow the instructions. If you don't have the installation CD, you can download the updated driver from the Lexmark website www.lexmark.com. Hope this helps.
To get your old printer off your computer: Click the computer's Start button, click Control Panel, click Hardware and Sound, click Printers. Right-click the name of the printer to be removed. Click Delete. Problems? - If you know your computer password, you can right-click, then click Run as Administrator, and click Delete. - Make sure there are no backed up print jobs waiting to be printed. That could cause a problem. For Mac computer, see Related Question below -
on a computer: printer spooling, server access; in real life: any form of waiting in que is first in first out.
Most likely means your printer is offline. Although, if your printer is online, and you are attempting to connect to your printer wirelessly, it could mean your computer is not properly connected to the printer's network.
The list of documents waiting for the Routing Official's approval.