Fixed printer problem at office

By | September 23, 2015

Since last 2 weeks, I am unable to take any print outs from the printer at my office and I have been getting the error. Google and found the following solution

Make sure you take backup of your registry, before you proceed with any of the changes mentioned below

  1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections
  2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider\Servers\PrintServer ( Or delete everything under ‘Servers’)
  3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider\S-1-5-21-3495873385-1854009407-4249714947-1147\Printers\Connections
  4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Defaults

Finally Restart ‘Print Spooler’ from the services window.

And viola I was able to connect to the printer. The issue was due to bad driver configuration which can resinstalled when you delete the registry entries and try to connect again.

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