Windows vista does not print

Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Uploads a printer driver to the driver store of a print server so that it can be installed with InstallPrinterDriverFromPackage.

Retrieves a handle to the specified printer or print server or other types of handles in the print subsystem, while setting some of the printer options. Specifies the caching of a handle for a printer opened with OpenPrinter2.

Creates a communication channel between the spooler-hosted printing component, such as a print driver or port monitor, and an application that needs to receive notifications from the component. Registers an application to receive notifications from spooler-hosted components such as printer drivers, print processors, and port monitors. Enables an application that has registered to receive notifications from spooler-hosted printing components to end its subscription to the notifications. InstalledPrinters[x], printFont, Brushes.

ToString , printFont,. Right - 10, nTextPosY ; e. FillEllipse System. Black, e. Show ex. I did find a solution. But, this may not work for everyone. Let me start and just say Computer Science should not be an "Engineering" subject. In fact each dialog executed separately would all generate different!

All of the print dialogs work just fine. I have reported this and MS took the process logs. In fact, my "flagship" application was crashing with printing.

I am not happy with answer that worked on my machine, but the "flagship" is printing just fine now. EmbeddedApe Your post was really helpful. And second, as embeddedape says in his post if you have a sentence like this i had the problem with this :. The content you requested has been removed. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. General Windows Desktop Development Issues. Sign in to vote. Monday, January 28, AM.

I haven't tried it in Vista yet, but i am having the same problem on Server 64bit. It simply does not show the dialog and continues running the code as if it wasn't even there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tuesday, November 18, AM. We are having the same issue.

Using the standard Print Dialog. The same exact code works fine under Vista 32 and XP. The dialog appears to be auto-cancelling out, yet I do have three printers installed with a default printer selected.

We're going to open a case with Microsoft as we cannot find a solution out there. This tutorial doesn't cover printing problems related to specific programs. Printing problems can be caused by cables that aren't connected properly, corrupt drivers, incompatible drivers, printer settings, missing updates, and problems with your printer. For best results, complete each step before you move on to the next one.

Try printing after each step before going to the next step. Was this reply helpful?