Windows 10: Win11 App Specific Printer Issue

Printing works fine in all other apps I have tried, but I have WinXP Cakewalk software running with the WinXP SP2 compatibility Highest privilege, UAC off, and Win11 causes Print and Print Preview options to be greyed out. I know this software is old BUT it worked fine running under Win10. It is also strange that even though Print option is greyed out, if I use Crtl P a window pops up for choices but then nothing happens. This program uses a special font. Could Win11 be blocking printing because of this. The app is using the font because music appears on the screen okay. It is just print

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printer issues

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for your interest in Windows.

• Is it a wired or wireless printer?
• Is the printer connected via network to your computer?

I suggest you to make printer as a default printer you can follow the below steps:

• Press Windows key+ X and select
  device manager.
• Select devices and printers
• Right click on the printer you want to use, and then click
  set as default printer (You'll see a check mark on the printer's icon signifying that it's now your default printer).

I suggest you to update the drivers for the printers and check if it helps.

I also recommend you to run the print troubleshooter to check the issue.

Fix printer connection and printing problems in Windows

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

Win11 compatibility

I have an HP Z book with an Intel Xeon E3-1505M v5 quad-core processor. The app suggests it does not meet specifications for a Win11 upgrade. Why so?

 

Possible printer issue with KB5005565

Update:

I'd been having problems with computers accessing our printer, which is USB-connected to my home computer. All computers had been able to print to it at one time, and then stopped "somewhere" along the line - we don't print a lot.

The impetus for my visiting this thread was that we got our first Windows 11 computer, and all the setup and configuration went fine, but I got 0x0000011b when trying to connect to the printer. I'd been able to "see" my computer, and the connected printer from the Win11 machine network view, but got the error when trying to connect.

I tried to use @ish4d0w's guidance:

But when the client Win11 machine asked for credentials for the printer-hosting computer, it wouldn't accept the correct credentials that I entered (why not? - should just be the username and password used to log into that host computer, right?).

I then tried the steps in Fix: Operation failed with error 0x0000011B (Windows cannot connect to the printer)

But there were some curves that way too:

1. The RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled registry key already existed on the host computer, and with a correct value of 0
2. KB5007186, which is supposed to be uninstalled, didn't exist on either the client (Win11) or host (Win10) computer - there was nothing to uninstall

So in trying to figure out what to do next, I took a poke at adding the printer, and voila, it worked. Recognized, installed, driver found and installed on the Win11 machine, and it printed fine.

So I'm happy I have it working, and all I can think is that the restarting the print spooler on the host machine - the only material change I made to anything - was what got it working.