Microsoft KB Archive/140841

Cannot Load Printer Driver with Windows Printing System

= Cannot Load Printer Driver with Windows Printing System =

Q140841
- The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Publisher for Windows 95, version 3.0 - Microsoft Windows Printing System, version 1.0 - Microsoft Windows 95 Operating System -

SYMPTOMS

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If you compose a publication for the Windows Printing System, save it, and then reopen it, you may receive the following message:

The printer selected for this publication, "Windows Printing  System," cannot be initialized or is not installed on the system.

Publisher will change the publication printer to "Windows  Printing System" instead. This may cause the page layout of  your publication to change, especially the fonts. Make sure to  run Publisher's Layout Checker before printing.

If you then try to print the publication, you will get the following message:

Cannot load printer driver.

CAUSE

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When you install Windows 95, some of the files included with the Windows Printing System are updated. The printer driver, however, is a Windows 3.1 printer driver.

Microsoft Publisher tries to save all the printer settings with the publication. This is so you can open several different publications and have each publication remembers what printer it was composed for and what print setting you chose for it. Unfortunately with some Windows 3.1 printer drivers (including the Windows Printing System), there are some settings that Publisher cannot save with the publication. This triggers the message.

Other programs do not try to save all the printer settings with their documents. The error, therefore, does not occur with them.

WORKAROUND

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To print correctly to the Windows Printing System, do the following:

1. On the File menu, click Print Setup.

2. In the list of printers, select Windows Printing System (if it is not  already selected.)

3. Click OK.

You can now print to the Windows Printing System successfully. You will have to repeat these steps each time you open the publication.

STATUS

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Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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