Each occasion you use the "Print" ability in one of your program, the data goes to a spool on your hard drive before being sent to the printer. If you are printing many documents, they form a print queue. Even if you have only one printer directly connected to your workstation, it's easy to get into a mess. Print jobs have a lot of complicated parameters. Simply by selecting a wrong page size/orientation, a wrong color or a page collating mode, you can end up with large amount of waste paper, ink, time and nerves. Worst of all is that the documents themselves have a chance to contain errors. Necessary corrections always come to your attention only after sending a data to the printer.

In offices where several staff share the same printer across a network, this problem occurs often and a good, reliable tool to handle the printer queue is an essential. Unfortunately, standard methods of printer queue management included in Windows are pretty limited. You have to distinguish jobs...