Printing is slow to start or complete
Windows 2000 provides print spooling to enable printing to occur in the background. An application prints a job, Windows 2000 intercepts it and sends it to the spool, and then Windows 2000 takes care of sending the job to the printer on behalf of the application. When you install and configure a printer, you can set it up to spool or to print directly to the printer, bypassing the spooler.
Using the spooler offers the advantage of giving you control of the application more quickly so you can continue working while Windows 2000 takes care of printing the document. If you find that your application waits until the print job is complete before giving you back control, it’s a good sign that spooling is turned off for that printer.
If you have a long document that is being spooled but not printing right away, you probably have the printer configured to start printing after the last page is spooled. To make the document start printing right away, you can configure the spooler to start printing as soon as the first page is spooled, rather than the last.
Change spool properties
You configure the spool settings through a printer’s property sheet. You can configure spool settings differently for each printer as needed.
Open the Printers folder, right-click the printer, and choose Properties.
On the Advanced page, select the option “Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster.”
To have a document begin printing as soon as it starts spooling, ...
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