This spooler from Supermac Software Technologies is very fast and offers all the necessary features plus a few extras. One key advantage it has over PrintMonitor is that it runs under the regular Finder. Super LaserSpool is an application program that you set to load every time on startup with the Set Startup command. You can specify a second application to start up after Super LaserSpool. The program also comes with a a desk accessory, called Laser Queue, which you use to monitor or adjust the activity of the print queue. Super LaserSpool is sold as a single-user product for $149 or in a multiuser version (which is simply five copies of the program) for $395.
As with other spoolers, Super LaserSpool stores files you print in a spool folder. To inspect the print queue, you choose the Laser Queue desk accessory, which brings up a window...
Using this window, you can rearrange the order of files in the queue, pause or resume printing of a file, or remove files from the queue. If you select a file, you can produce a page preview of any page in that file...
With Super LaserSpool you can also set the network priority of a file, so you can bypass the other jobs spooled on a network. To use it, you set a numeric priority level for your document, and if your document is set to a higher priority number than those from other users, it will be printed first. Of course, what often happens is that everyone wants his or her job printed first, and everyone sets a job's priority to the highest level. When this happens, documents are printed on a first-come, first-served basis, just as they are with other spoolers.
Super LaserSpool offers the same crash recovery feature as other spoolers, and it is compatible with the Aldus prep file. It alerts you when something is wrong with your printer, but it only beeps, instead of giving you a specific message like you see with PrintMonitor and LaserSpeed.
Super LaserSpool is the best-selling commercial spooler because it was the first of its kind and because it's slightly faster than the others... It isn't compatible with the MultiFinder at this writing, but Version 2.0 of the program, scheduled for release in June 1988, will be.
Rubin, Charles, Calica, Bencion. (1988). Macintosh Hard Disk Management. (pgs. 136-137). Hayden Books. Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Mini vMac
