Modern operating systems, including Windows 7, allow you to send multiple business documents to your printer. The documents, formatted for printing, are stored on your hard disk, and the printer ...

Although Microsoft Windows 7 can send many pages to a printer very quickly, the printer prints at its own rate. Queued documents, formatted for printing, must be stored somewhere. A "printer spooler" ...

However, you can potentially increase system performance by moving the printer spool files to a different drive than the one that holds the operating system. Computers frequently access system files, ...

Most 3D printers come with a pretty basic filament holder — often little more than a bar to hang the spool on. [Ivan Miranda]’s 3D printers run bigger spools than most, though, so he had to craft an ...

Most 3D printer filament soaks up water from the air, and when it does, the water passing through the extruder nozzle can expand, bubble, and pop, causing all kinds of mayhem and unwanted effects in ...