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Printing Error: Problem Initializing the current printer.

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December 2, 2009
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I am trying to print to PDF from within InDesign CS4. When I do, I get this message.

"Printing Error: Problem Initializing the current printer. Check the system print settings."

I don't have this issue from within Illustrator or Photoshop, Word, or any other program.

I temporarily got it working a couple times but I by opening "Adobe PDF presets" from within InDesign but I didn't really change anything so it may have been a fluke.

Running Windows 7, 64 bit.

Makes no sense that it works just fine in all programs but InDesign.

Any thoughts?

Correct answer Partrick David Yanello

Wow. I just upgraed from Windows 8 to 8.1. Then I went to Indesign to "Print Booklet" a two up 100 page plus booklet, and it would not permit me to do it, saying I had some sort of printer problem. Of course I was printing to PDF not a printer. So, I followed the advice in the early part of this thread, to just go into the print properties while I was in print booklet, and simply fake it out by temporarily changing the print to from PDF to a printer (without printing at all). Then I changed it back, and lo and behold it worked. I print bookleted my document two up to PDF. No problems. Whew! Strange stuff this upgrade business. Unimaginable fixes, only to be discerned by trial and error with properties. Amazing!

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razorharmon

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Thanks Patrick, worked for me too!

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Partrick David YanelloCorrect answer

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Wow. I just upgraed from Windows 8 to 8.1. Then I went to Indesign to "Print Booklet" a two up 100 page plus booklet, and it would not permit me to do it, saying I had some sort of printer problem. Of course I was printing to PDF not a printer. So, I followed the advice in the early part of this thread, to just go into the print properties while I was in print booklet, and simply fake it out by temporarily changing the print to from PDF to a printer (without printing at all). Then I changed it back, and lo and behold it worked. I print bookleted my document two up to PDF. No problems. Whew! Strange stuff this upgrade business. Unimaginable fixes, only to be discerned by trial and error with properties. Amazing!

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LSY86

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Perfect Patrick!!! Thank you!!

My problem, same error was appearing, as the Print Booklet function in InDesign wouldn't work. Printing Error: Problem Initialising the current printer.

So as you said, I clicked Print Booklet, selected a different printer / my real printer. Clicked on the set up button, then hit cancel and cancel.. Then went Print Booklet again, and selected Print to PDF and it worked!!!

Crazy!

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jen i m

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I had the same problem; CS4 windows 7, but I just printed to pdf the other week from this particular file. Tried to change a couple of settings- same error. Then did a reboot and printed pdf fine.

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Buzz81

Inspiring

I am having the same problem. This problem appeared out of nowhere. I tried the solutions above, rebooted 3 times, no dice. I was finally able to export to pdf. But I'm wondering why the print function doesnt work.

The questions above are older - I'm on Windows 8.1 x64, trying to print from Indesign 5.5. When Adobe Air updated it also installed an "Adobe Cloud" desktop application. I uninstalled that. Can't recall if I did that before getting export to work.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

We're all users, like you, not Adobe tech support. Have you tired deleting and reinstalling the printer? Was ID a fres install on a clean install or Windows 8, or was there some sort of upgrade?

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Anonymous

I have the same problem ("Printing Error: Problem Initializing the current printer.") and have yet to find a solution. I am on Windows 7, InDesign CS5 and Acrobat 9.3. I have read too many posts and found no solutions.

Acrobat also keeps crashing thanks to the "MakeAccessible.api" So once I finally get a pdf made in a round about fashion, I cannot combine or crop pages without crashing the program. I shut off all the Accessibility features to my knowledge but it keeps trying to "read" my file--- what gives?

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Anonymous

In case you are wondering, the files that are crashing in Acrobat 9.3 can be opened by earlier versions on another computer.

LucienSchilling

Known Participant

So this seems to be a fairly recuring problem. If anyone can tell me how to cure this, I would be really happy. We have this problem on 2 computers WIN 7 64, InDesign CS 5 (7.03) and Acrobat 9.4.3.

We have it by doing a "Print Booklet". Other printers work well!

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KMK_media_groupAuthor

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Well, I got it working.

All I did was mess around with a couple of the print settings in the print dialogue box that comes up - bascially stuff that shouldn't really affect whether it prints or not....and that did it. Now it is working, so far.

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jorgeseptien

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I got this error to disappear after noticing that this error occurred only on existing files. The problem was probably due to the fact the last time the file I was trying to print to PDF was opened, the file was printed to the Adobe PDF driver from Version 8. Since I now have Acrobat version 9, I needed to reselect it from the pulldown menu within the print window. I first selected another local printer and then, without printing to that other printer, I reselected the Adobe PDF driver. That seems to work.

I hope this helps.

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lillianac47189757

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This helped me - to choose another printer from dropdown, then selected PDF again.

Thanks for posting this.

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