We have all been there. You click "Print," walk to the printer, and nothing happens. You return to your computer to find the document sitting in the queue with a status of "Error" or "Spooling." You try to cancel it, but it just sits there, stubbornly refusing to delete. This is the "Ghost Job." The print spooler—a software service that manages print jobs—has choked. Clearing it is the digital Heimlich maneuver.
