Outlook 2010 won't print to a specific network printer.

At the business where I work, I have a user that cannot print from Outlook 2010 to one specific network printer.  She can log onto another domain computer and print from outlook.  All other programs on her computer will print to that printer.  Just not outlook.  Her Outlook will print to other network printers, but none of them are at her location.  I have done a repair on it through "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features" with no luck.  Anytime she tries to print from Outlook she gets a pop up message that reads "Printer not ready".  I've been able to rule out the exchange / print server, and concluded that it has to be Outlook.  I'm thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling office but would prefer to avoid that if possible because it is a remote computer in a foreign location and the latency makes it a slow process for both of us.

Any ideas?  I'm stumped.

I posted this on answers.mocrosoft.com May 7th and have had no replies.

Since the initial incident, I tried the following hoping for a solution:  I copied the users data (documents, desktop, favorites, etc.) to a folder on the "C" drive.  I then deleted her domain profile from the computer and had her log back in to re-create the profile on the computer.  I moved her data to the corresponding locations from the previous profile and set her exchange account back up.  Everything was working just as always, except she still had the same printing issue.  The next day when she logged in, she got a message saying that she was being logged on to a temporary profile.  I checked  under C:\Users on her computer and saw that her profile was still there, but all of her data was missing.  I found an article about making registry changes to correct the problem on support.microsoft.com but did not do that yet. 

May 15th, 2015 8:34am

Hi,

Before we start troubleshooting, please let me summarize the issue first:

  1. One user in your work place cant print from a specific network printer
  2. Other programs like Word can print from that specific network printer
  3. Error message the user got was Printer not ready
  4. Troubleshooting steps youve done:
    • Repaired Office
    • Ruled out Exchange/printer server
    • Recreated the user domain profile

If I misunderstood anything, please correct me. Meanwhile I have couple of questions:

  1. Have you tried log on to the users computer with other account like yours to see if Outlook can print to that printer
  2. Everything was working just as always, except she still had the same printing issue. Do you mean that after you re-create the users profile user was able print from Outlook to that printer?
  3. What Brand printer you are using, HP or Dell or others?

I'v done some research from my side, follow method is the most recommended solution: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\. Delete the outlprnt file

Let me know the result and reply back with above information for further troubleshooting. Thank you.

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May 19th, 2015 4:00am

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