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Marc van Breemen
Marc van Breemen

Reputation:

Error "Settings to access printer 'printername' are not valid" when printing from Windows service

I get the error mentioned when printing to a network printer.

The error does not occur when run under XP/Win2003, in a WinForm app or when a local printer is used.

The error does only occur when run as a Windows Service under Vista/Win7/Win2008 and printing to a network printer.

The Windows service runs under a network user that has access to the network printer. Before I print I check if the printername (including network path) is ok by looping through the available printers.

How can this be solved?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 55388

Answers (3)

Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 57

For anyone that stumbles across this issue in the future.

Double check that your Printer Name is correct as it could also be the reason you might be getting this error.

Upvotes: 3

efecetir
efecetir

Reputation: 81

In my case we got same error for windows 10 os client computers. I think the error is related users and their permissions.

After making the client computers to our company's domain the error was fixed.

Upvotes: 0

Marc van Breemen
Marc van Breemen

Reputation:

Solved by adding the printer to the SYSTEM user via a registry hack as described in the Microsoft doc: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184291/en-us.

Upvotes: 2

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