Office 2010: printing does not respect properties of printer

Anonymous
2010-07-01T07:32:35+00:00

Hi,

I am using O2010 Professional Plus UK. It seems that O2010 ignores all setting of the Properties of the printer and only applies the settings you see on the print page of Office itself. That means that all other options of the printer are out of reach: O2010 just ignores them.

This issue is only with O2010 and not with any other software so it clearly must be an O2010 problem.

I am using a Vista 32bit UK OS.

Any help in solving this is more than welcome!

Michael

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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Anonymous
2010-07-16T22:01:37+00:00

It suggests an incompatible printer driver or the driver is damaged. Download the latest version of the driver, then delete and reinstall the printer. If it persists, take it up with the printer manufacturers support site to see if they have a solution.

-- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

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Anonymous
2012-07-30T05:43:33+00:00

Problem:  Microsoft Word 2010 ignores printer settings when in Compatability Mode.  When in Word 2010 mode it prints fine.  For example: try printing 2 copies, or a page range, current page or anything else in any compatability mode document created in any verson of Word and it does not work.  It will print a full copy of the document.  But it ignores everything else. 

Temp fix:  I have people convert the document to Word 2010 format to do any kind of special printing.  If they want the page range or 2 copies or anything else it has to be done from Word 2010 format.

Keep in mind that Word 2007 DocX format is Different than Word 2010 DocX and so 2007 docs come up as compatability mode as well and have the same issues as any other .doc docs. 

MS should fix this.  I know office 2012 is about to release, but this is a really bad bug.  I have this issue on brand new images running Windows 7 Pro (updated), Drivers for all the printers updated, and the issue is happening on all the many types of printers we have.   Not a driver issue.  Word issue. 

By the way, the version of Word 2010 is the corporate version with sp1 built in.  Not sure if that makes any difference.  I don't have 2010 without sp1.  Maybe that has less issues.  Curious if the guys not experiencing this are running a previous version of 2010. 

Chris

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-02-08T12:56:59+00:00

    Or a third-party application such as imanage, which lawfirmtechnology.com has now determined was the cause of his problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-08T09:26:34+00:00

    I found that my issue was related to imanage. It is a document management software. A patch from imanage fixed the printing issue with word 2010

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-02-08T05:02:43+00:00

    As you have jumped in to a thread that was started a couple of years ago without describing exactly how the "same" issue is manifesting itself, I would suggest that you start a new thread in which you give a full description of the problem.

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