How to Fix Unable to Install Printer The Print Processor Does Not Exist

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How to Fix Unable to Install Printer The Print Processor Does Not Exist

Jul 30th, 2009 12:46:08 pm - Subscribe
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Today we received this issue in our Houston offices, and suprisingly it was pretty easy to resolve. The error message was Unable to Install Printer The Print Processor Does Not Exist.

How to Fix Unable to Install Printer The Print Processor Does Not Exist
Ok obviously you are recieving this error upon the installation of a new or exisiting printer on your local area network, or heck it maybe connected directly to the PC. Well to fix this problem simply uninstall the driver, and then reinstall. You may be prompted during the hardware installation wizard to Use the Existing Driver (recommended) or reinstall the driver. Well, just reinstall it. This will remove, and reinstall the print processor associated with the service / printer.

To recap go to:

Start

Control Panel

Printer & Faxes

Add a New Printer

Start Hardware Wizard

Reinstall the Printer Driver (do not use existing)

Finish the Hardware Wizard

Test Print (if you like)

Should you have any issues feel free to collaborate and post them here. Hope this helps!

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anonymous - August 16th, 2009
Brilliant- worked a treat- many thanks.

anonymous - August 24th, 2009
thank you... solved my problem as well

anonymous - September 07th, 2009
i have spent the past 3 hours trying to get the printer working, then I came across your article (and having previously used the existing driver) took yr suggestion and sit went straight up & running

many thanks

Dave - Sydney, Australia

anonymous - September 28th, 2009
I followed the advise and had no luck... my printer is not printing even though it's not giving me any error messages, lights are not flashing etc

anonymous - November 03rd, 2009
Saved me a lot of time. Thanks a million!! Worked like a charm!

anonymous - November 29th, 2009
THANKS! I have spent 2 hours on this - I download a hotfix from microsoft trying to resolve it. I used another machine and copied the dll's.... and all I needed to do is not use the existing driver! UGH! It's the obvious stuff! THANK YOU!

anonymous - December 08th, 2009
This was simple and helpful. It worked perfectly. Thanks for sharing this solution.

anonymous - December 14th, 2009
Thanks for sharing this solution. I have replaced the drivers Worked perfectly.

Anil-India

anonymous - January 25th, 2010
Thank you, it worked perfectly!

anonymous - January 26th, 2010
This is no better than any of the dozens of other solutions that have FAILED! Windows 7 sucks.

anonymous - January 31st, 2010
After many hours of web surfing, trying, and failing ... your suggestion WORKED!!! Many thanks for having taken your time to share this with the world. I, for one, am most appreciative!!!

anonymous - February 08th, 2010
Your suggestion worked for me after numerous attempts of trying different things.

anonymous - February 23rd, 2010
Excellent advise, indebted to you indeed!

anonymous - March 07th, 2010
Sadly to say but this advise didn't work for me :-(

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