stackyFACTSWhen your computer says it is spooling, it actually means it is aggressively translating your document into a format the peripheral can slowly digest.
When your computer says it is spooling, it actually means it is aggressively translating your document into a format the peripheral can slowly digest. Because printers historically had terrible internal processing, the operating system has to chop the image into thousands of horizontal lines and feed them over individually. It is the digital equivalent of chewing someone else's food before letting them painfully swallow it.
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