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

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

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.

To resolve this problem:

1. Run Control Panel and double-click the Printers icon.
2. 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.
3. Use the right mouse button to click the printer that you want to use as your Windows 95 default printer.
4. Click Set As Default on the pop-up menu.

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

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