The present invention features a computer based printing system comprising a client computing device, or optionally a server computing device; one or more printer drivers; a print processor; a print spooler; one or more printing devices; and means for initiating a print job(s) in a local, network or remote, single or multi-user, printing environment. The print job is initiated by the printing source or the printing device. Also included is means to despool print data from a print job directly to a printing device from the printing source, according to a print job ticket, using a spooler or print processor based printing system having synchronous centralized management.