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
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider\Servers\PrintServer ( Or delete everything under ‘Servers’)
- 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
- 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.