Windows 7, Printer is unavailable until PC reboot

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Published on 2012-09-10T17:41:31Z Indexed on 2012/09/11 15:41 UTC
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We are having a problem that I haven't seen before and can find no answers to online.

A desktop running Windows 7 is unable to print using network printers. When the user tries, no matter what printer it is, he get's the following message when using Microsoft Office applications:

"Current printer is unavailable. Select another printer."

When the end user uses Outlook we get the message:

"Printing is not available. There are no printers installed. You can select and configure a printer in Windows Control Panel."

Now here is the confusing part, if we reboot the pc it works fine for a little while and then goes back to the same old same old. The printers are working fine for every other user as well so I believe it is the user's machine. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Edit: I'd like to add in that some people were having luck disabling snmp for the printers. Restarting the print spooler doesn't seem to do anything.

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