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PUB: No Printer Installed on System Error Attempting to Print File

Article ID: 142068

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q142068

SYMPTOMS

If you try to print a publication, you may receive the following error message:

No printer is installed on the system.

Please install a printer for Publisher to use. This may cause the page layout of your publication to change, especially the fonts. Make sure to run Publisher's Layout Checker before printing.

This message may occur even if you have one or more printers listed in your Printers folder. It will occur even if you run Printer Setup and choose a specific printer to print to.

CAUSE

There is no default printer listed in your Win.ini file. This situation may occur even if there is a default printer listed in your Printers folder.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem:

Run Control Panel and double-click the Printers icon.
Use the right mouse button to click the icon for a printer other than the one that you want to use as the default printer. Click Set As Default on the pop-up menu.
Use the right mouse button to click the printer that you want to use as your Windows 95 default printer.
Click Set As Default on the pop-up menu.

MORE INFORMATION

Under normal circumstances, there is a line similar to the following in the [Windows] section of your Win.ini file:

   device=My Printer,PSCRIPT,LPT1

In this example, the default printer is called My Printer, it uses the printer driver called Pscrpt.drv and it is attached to the LPT1 port.

Publisher looks for this line to find out what your default printer is. If the line is missing, Publisher is unable to print your documents.

STATUS

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

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