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ghstrydr
Jun 25, 2025Copper Contributor
Windows Print to PDF is enabled, but does not work
I just did a pc recovery because I had a hanging update that would not go away, and the system files were corrupt. Now windows print to pdf shows it is available, but fails to print. The error me...
Federer
Jul 01, 2025Iron Contributor
Your main challenge is that the driver isn't showing up properly in the manual add process, despite being enabled. Reinstalling via DISM, manually registering drivers with pnputil, resetting the spooler, or creating a new local printer often resolve such issues.
ghstrydr
Jul 03, 2025Copper Contributor
I have done all these things, and still it does not work. I even took another clean driver from another PC and used that to reinstall the driver, and still no joy. This all happened after a windows update, so I am not sure what happened.