Printing

Why Printing Can Start Later Even After You Click Print

You click Print, the application returns to normal, and yet the printer does nothing for several seconds. Sometimes the document appears in a print queue first. If another job is stuck, your new document may wait behind it even though the printer itself seems ready. That delay makes more sense once you separate submitting a print job from physically printing it. Your application usually does not feed each page directly to the printer while keeping the Print command open. Instead, the computer prepares a job, hands it to the operating system’s printing system, and lets that system manage delivery to the printer.