Although it may be true that all things come to those who wait, nobody ever said waiting was fun. With SuperLaserSpool (SLS), the waiting is over. This time saving print spooler now works with System 7. Improved speed, support for color printers, and the ability to print to more than one printer simultaneously are new features that will help keep SLS on many people’s must-have list.
Print spoolers help you work more efficiently by letting you use your Mac while documents print in the background. Although spooling can’t speed up total print time, it significantly shortens the screen freeze you otherwise endure until your document finishes printing. The time savings can be significant; a seven-page Microsoft Word document printing to a GCC Business Laser Printer with SuperLaserSpool returned control to our IIcx 1.25 minutes earlier than it did without a spooler, and SLS saved more than 11 minutes on a graphics-intensive nine-page MacInTax document. Considering the number of times you print each day, SLS just may open up enough time to make a dent in your perpetually overflowing in box.
But why buy SuperLaserSpool when you get Apple’s PrintMonitor spooler free with your system software? PrintMonitor works only with StyleWriters, LaserWriters, and some third-party compatibles; SLS can spool to a larger set of laser, dot-matrix, bubblejet and inkjet printers (including the HP DeskWriters). SLS also works with PageMaker, which historically has had difficulty talking to PrintMonitor. If you can’t use PrintMonitor, SuperLaserSpool is a great investment.
Additionally, unlike PrintMonitor, SLS lets you preview print jobs for all applications (not just those with a Page Preview feature), send jobs simultaneously from the same computer to different printers, and spool print jobs while your printer warms up. SLS is often slightly faster than PrintMonitor although not enough to justify a switch on that basis alone.
SLS is easy to install and use. As a system extension, it loads automatically when you start your Macintosh. SLS takes care of spooling while you print as you normally would. An included DA, Laser Queue, lets you easily check on, reorder, or remove print jobs. Although SLS has trouble coexisting with some fax-modem software (you need to deselect the fax driver in the SLS setup screen) and there's a glitch with printing graphics in Microsoft Word 5.0, SLS performs flawlessly with most applications. The documentation is excellent, as is the technical support.
Cryan, Shelley. (October 1992). SuperLaserSpool. MacUser. (pg. 83).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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