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Unable to print...get message: "An unknown error occured while printing"...no problem with other browsers or offline printing. Problem started a couple of weeks ago, and is intermittent.

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AnonymousUser
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Cannot print while using Firefox....get error message: "An unknown error occured while printing"...no problems printing with other browsers or offline.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== about 2 weeks ago....has been intermittent

Cannot print while using Firefox....get error message: "An unknown error occured while printing"...no problems printing with other browsers or offline. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == about 2 weeks ago....has been intermittent

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Try the reset described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problems_printing_web_pages#Reset_pr...

AnonymousUser
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Using Firefox 3.6.6 get unable to print unknown error message while printing; using Vista SP2. Everything else prints fine including the dreaded IE.

stage9
stage9
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The "reset" does not work.

drmarq
drmarq
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The reset does not work for me.

Computor
Computor
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Reset does not work. Interesting: when print is selected, a box comes up saying the printer is offline. It is not, and works with all other programs.