The Printer has not responded, but...

[Ben Wylie]

The printer has not responded, but the Microsoft Office
program may be able to proceed without printer
information. Do you want to continue to wait for the
printer?

I have a network printer installed which Windows will
not be able to get information from, therefore it /always/
gives me this message when i am printing to this particular
printer.

Is there any way to disable word from trying to find out
about the printer, but just to take it that it should print
anyway (just automatically select yes).
If there was some setting to disable so that it wouldn't try
using any advanced features with the printer but just to
send the the file to the specified printer, that would be
very helpful.

Thanks
Ben

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You need to install the printer driver locally, even if you will be printing
to a network printer.

 

[Ben Wylie]

The printer driver is installed, and if i click no, don't wait for the
printer, and tell it to print, it is fine.

Ben

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the printer driver is installed locally, you should not be getting this
message.

 

[Ben Wylie]

IS there a way to prevent word from checking the printer when it is starting
up?
I have the printer driver installed locally, but the shared printer is an
old system, and it basically prints to a post script file which the other
system prints out. This seems to be messing it up, so it is giving this
error message whenever it loads up. Is there a way to disable this testing
for printer driver, or for margins and to just print it out? When it does
print, it does it fine, so it is just this problem when it is loading which
is a real pain.

Any ideas?

Ben