Cannot print unless an item is selected.
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Microsoft Outlook is a great amenity to its users which includes many needful features that easy the digital work. It includes a Print feature for Outlook emails which having connection with a Printer device can easily print the emails residing in it. In Outlook, users just need to select the emails, go to File>Print option to print those emails.
However, MS Outlook users encounter some printing issues in almost each version randomly. Some issues related to this Print function in Outlook are:
“Printer is unavailable”
“Printer is not ready”
“Print Pictures Error”
“Problem with the selected printer”
“Improper printing of emails”
“Header information not included in print”
These issues simply annoy the user when he is involved in some tight and important work. Unable to take out the prints at that time seems quite frustrating and worthless but do not worry. In this article, we would suggest you some quick manual tricks to fix this emails printing issue in Outlook. As we have mentioned earlier, for different versions of Outlook, the printing problem is different along with their causes. We are going to categorize then in 3 divided set of versions and discuss the issues with causes and then head upon their solutions.
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Soluton 1. Renaming Outlprnt File
OUTLOOK PRINTING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Outlook 2013, 2016 And 2019
Issue – The main issue that users are facing in the recent versions of Outlook is when they try to print any selected email, the Outlook throws an error “Printer is not ready” or “Cannot print unless an item is selected. Select an item, and then try to print again.” which ultimately halts the print action.
Cause – The supposed reasons behind this issue could be improper connection with printer, network issue, corrupted OutlPrnt file, interruption due to active Add-ins or any issue in Print spooling service in Outlook.
Solution – Here are provided some quick tricks that you can try to fix MS Outlook Printing Problems.
Soluton 1. Renaming Outlprnt File
You can resolve the issue by rebuilding the OutlPrnt file which holds the Outlook printing style settings as the older one may get corrupted. Perform these steps.
Close the running Outlook application.
Find the OutlPrnt file either using the search option or following the path “%appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook”.
Double click on it and rename it with some other name like OutlPrnt1.
Now, run the Outlook application again and see if it is printing normally.
Soluton 2. Checking Add-Ins
Users can check on active Add-Ins, disable them one-by-one and restart the Outlook application. Check after which Add-In disable, the Outlook Printing problem is resolved.
To locate the Add-Ins page, go to File>Options>Add-Ins.
Note: Outlook must be run in safe mode.
Soluton 3. Running Printing Troubleshooting Tool
Users can try to resolve the printing issue through the troubleshooting tool. Let us see how.
Check for network connections and that printer has no issues.
Download the free printing troubleshooting tool online and install it.
Run this installed tool and fix the issue.
Check in Outlook if the issue is resolved.
Soluton 4. Restarting Print Spooler service
It is a system service whose function is to manage the printing services. By restarting it again, the problem could be resolved.
Type Services in the Windows run dialog box and it will open the Windows Services page.
Find Print Spooler service within the list, double click on it and select Stop.
Again in the search bar, type %WINDIR%\system32\spool\printers and delete the files existing in that folder.
After that, navigate to Windows Services as in step a and then restart the Print Spooler service.
Soluton 5. Updating the Driver
This is also an option, if the above solutions are not helping. You can update the driver for printer like this.
Go to the Device Manager.
Navigate to Printer options, select the Outlook printer and click on Update Driver option.
Run the Outlook application again and try printing the email.
Outlook 2010
Issue – The most common issue in this version is misprinting or no printing of header while printing the email in Outlook. Due to disorganized header, the email prints improperly.
Cause – The reason could be that the message or mail is not arranged adequately within the printing page.
Solution – In this case, users can open the message in a browser and then click on View option there and then print or select the desired part for print to avoid the header issue.
Outlook 2007 and Earlier Versions
Issue – In the old versions of Outlook, the most prevalent issue related to Outlook printing is that emails are not printing properly, header information is unavailable and selection of pages is not functioning.
Cause – Message not arranged properly in printing page, restrictions in Internet Explorer web browser, HTML formatting issue.
Solution –
Soluton 1. Open Message in Browser and Print
Users can select the message and change it to HTML format by clicking on Edit Message option. Then, click on Other Actions and then select View in Browser. Finally, printing the message.
Soluton 2. Upgrading the Internet Explorer
For earlier versions like 2003 or older, one technique to resolve the issue could be upgrading the Internet Explorer version.
We have discussed all the possible manual tricks for almost all Outlook versions. Try them accordingly to fix the MS Outlook Printing Problems. If you are not getting the problem fixed, then possibly the PST file needs repair. Get complete solution for repairing the Outlook PST file with the PST Repair tool compatible with all Outlook versions. Know all about the tool from this link.
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