Printer Properties Cannot Be Displayed Double Check The Printer Name And Make
Apr 24, 2019 - Double check the printer name and make sure the printer is. A few tweaks in the settings or in the registry will remedy the. If you already running as the system administrator, this option will not be visible in the menu. Firewall blocks networked printer and other device IP Addresses. Printer message is: “Printer Properties cannot be displayed. The Print Spooler is not Running” Problem: One or more of the following: 1. When attempting to print, you get the message in title 2.
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Automates many printer configuration tasks. Printui.dll is the executable file that contains the functions used by the printer configuration dialog boxes. These functions can also be called from within a script or a command-line batch file, or they can be run interactively from the command prompt. For examples of how this command can be used, see Examples.
Syntax
You can also use the following alternate syntaxes, although the examples in this topic use the previous syntax:
Parameters
There are two types of parameters: base parameters and modification parameters. Base parameters specify the function that the command is to perform. Only one of these parameters can appear in a given command line. Then, you can modify the base parameter by using one or more of the modification parameters if they are applicable to the base parameter (not all modification parameters are supported by all base parameters).
Base Parameters | Description |
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/dl | Deletes the local printer. |
/dn | Deletes a network printer connection. |
/dd | Deletes a printer driver. |
/e | Displays the printing preferences for a given printer. |
/ga | Adds a per computer printer connection (the connection is available to any user on that computer when they log on). |
/ge | Displays per computer printer connections on a computer. |
/gd | Deletes a per computer printer connection (the connection is deleted the next time a user logs on). |
/ia | Installs a printer driver by using an .inf file. |
/id | Installs a printer driver by using the Add Printer Driver Wizard. |
/if | Installs a printer by using an .inf file. |
/ii | Installs a printer by using the Add Printer wizard with an .inf file. |
/il | Installs a printer by using the Add Printer wizard. |
/in | Connects to a remote network printer. |
/ip | Installs a printer by using the Network Printer Installation Wizard (available from the user interface from Print Management). |
/k | Prints a test page on a printer. |
/o | Displays the queue for a printer. |
/p | Displays the properties of a printer. When you use this parameter, you must also specify a value for the modification parameter /n[name]. |
/s | Displays the properties of a print server. If you want to view the local print server, you do not need to use a modification parameter. However, if you want to view a remote print server, you must specify the /c[name] modification parameter. |
/Ss | Specifies what type of information for a printer will be stored. If none of the values for /Ss are specified, the default behavior is as if all of them were specified. Use this base parameter with the following values placed at the end of the command line:
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/Sr | Specifies what information about a printer is restored and how conflicts in settings are handled. Use with the following values placed at the end of the command line:
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/Xg | Retrieves the settings for a printer. |
/Xs | Sets the settings for a printer. |
/y | Sets the printer being installed as the default printer. |
/? | Displays the in-product Help for the command and its associated parameters. |
@[file] | Specifies a command-line argument file and directly inserts the text in that file into the command line. |
Modification Parameters | Description |
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/a[file] | Specifies the binary file name. |
/b[name] | Specifies the base printer name. |
/c[name] | Specifies the computer name if the action to be performed is on a remote computer. |
/f[file] | Species the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path and name of the .inf file name or the output file name, depending on the task that you are performing. Use /F[file] to specify a dependent .inf file. |
/F[file] | Specifies the UNC path and name of a .inf file that the .inf file specified with /f[file] depends on. |
/h[architecture] | Specifies the driver architecture. Use one of the following: x86, x64, or Itanium. |
/j[provider] | Specifies the print provider name. |
/l[path] | Specifies the UNC path where the printer driver files that you are using are located. |
/m[model] | Specifies the driver model name. (This value can be specified in the .inf file.) |
/n[name] | Specifies the printer name. |
/q | Runs the command with no notifications to the user. |
/r[port] | Specifies the port name. |
/u | Specifies to use the existing printer driver if it is already installed. |
/t[#] | Specifies the zero-based index page to start on. |
/v[version] | Specifies the driver version. If you do not also specify a value for /K, you must specify one of the following values: Type 2 - Kernel Mode or Type 3 - User Mode. |
/w | Prompts the user for a driver if the driver is not found in the .inf file that is specified by /f. |
/Y | Specifies that printer names should not be automatically generated. |
/z | Specifies to not automatically share the printer being installed. |
/K | Changes the meaning of the parameter /h[architecture] to accept 2 in place of x86, 3 in place of x64, or 4 in place of Itanium. It also changes the value of the parameter /v[version] to accept 2 in the place of Type 2 - Kernel Mode and 3 in place of Type 3 - User Mode. |
/Z | Shares the printer that is being installed. Only use with the /if parameter. |
/Mw[message] | Displays a warning message to the user before committing the changes specified in the command line. |
/Mq[message] | Displays a confirmation message to the user before committing the changes specified in the command line. |
/W[flags] | Specifies any parameters or options for the Add Printer wizard, the Add Printer Driver Wizard, and the Network Printer Installation Wizard. r: Enables the wizards to be restarted from the last page. |
/G[flags] | Specifies global parameters and options that you want to use. w: Suppresses setup driver warnings to the user. |
Remarks
The PrintUIEntry keyword is case sensitive, and you must enter the syntax for this command with the exact capitalization shown in the examples in this topic.
See Examples in this document for the syntax for some common tasks. For more examples, at a command prompt type: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?
Examples
To add a new remote printer, Printer1, for a computer, Client1, which is visible for the user account where this command is run, type:
To add a printer using the Add Printer wizard and using an .inf file, InfFile.inf, located on drive c: at InfPath, type:
To delete an existing printer, Printer1, on a computer, Client1, type:
To add a per computer printer connection, Printer2, for all users of a computer, Client2, type (the connection will be applied when a user logs on):
To delete a per computer printer connection, Printer2, for all users of a computer, Client2, type (the connection will be deleted when a user logs on):
To view the properties of the print server, PrintServer1, type:
To view the properties of a printer, Printer3, type:
Additional references
I have Ubuntu 11.10 on one computer and Windows 7 on another. The Ubuntu computer has a printer attached, and I want to add this printer to the Windows 7 computer. Printing locally works. The problem is that Windows is not able to see the shared printer, so I cannot add it.
Double Check The Printer Name And Make Sure That The Printer Is Connected To The Network Windows 7
I am guessing that some Ubuntu setting / software is still missing, but what exactly?
How can I make Windows add this printer?
In the CUPS web front-end, the checkbox Share printers connected to this system is checked. I'm not sure whether the checkbox Allow printing from the Internet needs to be checked also; I've tried both settings, and neither worked.
On Windows, I can connect to the CUPS web front-end and see the printer listed (see screenshot below). And yet, when I add that printer URL, Windows complains that it cannot connect to the printer.
The Ubuntu computer is a fresh install. I already have full write access on Windows shares, so something of this kind must be preconfigured out-of-the-box. I have not installed or changed any applications or settings regarding Samba or
smb.conf. Do I need to do anything in this regard (on Ubuntu 11.10!) or is that obsolete or already included and fully configured?Googling for this problem gives me plenty of material dated 2005-2009 but nothing newer. I don't think that's still valid in 2012 and I don't want to mess up my new installation with outdated instructions. Via one of the comments I came to this page about network printing from Windows but it does not specify whether Samba is already installed -- or which Samba to install, because searching in the Ubuntu Software Center yields several results.
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Well, I finally got it working. It turns out there are several parts that need to work together (of course). But here's a way that requires zero work in terminal:
- Install 'system-config-samba'.
- Launch 'Samba' from the launcher.
- Open 'Preferences' > 'Server Settings' and enter the workgroup name used in Windows.
- Go to http://localhost:631/admin/ and check the box 'Share printers connected to this system'.
- Go to http://localhost:631/printers/ and check that the expected printer is listed.
- Click the printer and check that it is listed as 'Idle, Accepting Jobs, Shared, Server Default'.
3) Connect the printer:
Do either of these steps:
- On the Windows computer, open Windows Explorer and go to the 'Network' item. There's an icon for the Ubuntu computer; open it. There's an icon for the printer shared from Ubuntu. Right-click that one and select 'Connect...'.
- On the Windows computer, select 'Add new printer' then 'Connect to a printer on the Internet or network' and specify the full path of 'http://{computername}:631/printers/{printername}'
Then go to the printer properties and set it up with the desired defaults.
Torben Gundtofte-BruunTorben Gundtofte-Bruun
Windows drivers must be uploaded through Windows Explorer unlike Linux drivers which are installed on Linux filesystems.
You may either
- use a PS driver on Windows and a specific driver in CUPS or
- use a specific driver in Windows and the Raw (which actually means transparent) driver in CUPS