Quicken 2008 printing problems windows 7

The first two were already set with rights to print turned 'on'. Hope this helps Friday, December 18, PM. I have no problem printing under these settings. We downloaded new driver from HP site- and that fixed problem for me. Tuesday, January 12, PM. OK I'm close to everyone's same problem. Using Windows 7 64bit OS. HP Deskjet The print function for Reports and Graphs recognizes all the available printers in the setup screen.

After choosing my printer, and selecting 'print', the printer goes through and initialization sequence and then hangs up -- appears the communication between computer and printer is being blocked. NOw Both the print check and transaction set up screens will not recognize any available printers and returns the following message: "Unable to verify the active printer at the system level. Please verify the printer is turned on and try again. The printer works fine with programs other than my version of Quicken Go to HP website and download drivers for your printer and Win7.

Been there, done that. HP indicates no new driver available for deskjet Recommends using generic driver contained in Windows 7 which works fine for other programs.

I have tried all of the advice above an nothing works. Fortunately for me we use Quicken for our personal finances and do not need to print reports very often. Thursday, January 14, PM.

Could not get it to print reports don't print checks. Tried the fix proposed by Win7forMe. No longer have any printing problems. Thanks Fred! Tuesday, January 26, AM. It was working fine until Win 7 lost the printer one day and I reloaded the driver, then reloaded it again with the latest Win 7 32 bit driver.

Since that time Quicken has given nothing but the " unable to verify active printer at the system level" message, even when I try to print to the PDF driver! I've also tried deleting all the printers except a locally attached Epson. Always get the same message. Have tried all the solutions listed here and no luck. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Is there any back door way to get into Quicken's printer setup to get it to look for a different printer?

Tuesday, February 9, PM. Finally just upgraded to Quicken 10 and the printing problem went away. Wednesday, February 10, PM. Hi Fred, I was really hopeful but it didn't work.

Friday, April 9, PM. I have Quicken and Vista 64 SP2. Paul Paul. Saturday, April 17, PM. Quicken prints in win7 Professional this way: I went to XP Mode, installed Quicken , installed my printer took me awhile.. Monday, May 10, PM. I posted this issue 9 - 12 months ago. You and others tried to help me at that time but nothing worked.

At that time I also contacted Quicken and Canon and all they did was point fingers. Since the problem exists both in Windows 7 and XP, it has to be the printer driver but Canon won't admit it. I have the latest driver installed and it works for everything I have except for page scaling within Quicken.

I only print reports at year-end for inclusion with my tax return documentation so it's really not a problem. Also, I initially encountered this problem in Windows 7, I had a "hell" of a time fixing it because it screws up all my Quicken printing if I try to change printers, within Quicken, from PDF to Canon or vice versa.

I have learned to leave well enough alone. By the way, the Canon i printer is a wide-format printer that allows me to print 11X Thanks anyway for your concern. I have been meaning to write and tell everyone who helped me that I installed Quicken with Windows 7 and all is working fine now.

I was going to install Windows 7 on my old computer but at the last minute decided to get a new computer with Windows 7 already installed. That, of course, took some time and then it was a tedious task installing all my programs and data again. The Quicken program installed with no problems, although there were a few problems with the data.

We finally copied and pasted the backup data as slb suggested and everything is okay now. Thank you again to everyone who helped me. Quicken and Windows 7. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message.

I will be installing Windows 7 on my computer shortly I now have Windows XP and want to make sure I do not have any problems with my Quicken Deluxe. I have my Quicken data backed up to a flash drive as well as to a separate hard drive in the computer. Product Version. If nothing prints from Quicken: Ensure that your printer is online and all cables are securely attached. If your printer is on a network, ensure that your network allows you permission to access the printer.

Confirm the correct printer is shown in the Printer field. Try making another printer the default printer: Click the Start button, go to Windows System, then select Control Panel.

Under Hardware and Sound , click View devices and printers. Right-click the printer and choose Set as default printer. Enter some text. Select the File menu and select Print. If your file does not print from WordPad or Notepad, it indicates that Windows is not communicating with the printer. Check your Windows printer settings. If your file does print from WordPad or Notepad, try reinstalling the printer driver.

To do this, search the internet for your printer's model number and the word "driver. If you are unable to locate the driver, you can uninstall and reinstall the printer software.

This will typically install the latest version of the software with the latest driver. If the report is printing too small First, close Quicken, then check the Compatibility tab settings for Quicken: In the Windows Start menu, right-click the Quicken icon.

Select More. Select Open File Location. This brings up a File Explorer window. Right-click the highlighted Quicken shortcut line item and select Properties.

Select the Compatibility tab. Uncheck all settings. Select Change high DPI settings. Check Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: and select Application.

Click OK. Uncheck the Run this program in compatibility mode for [older Windows version] setting. Click the Change settings for all users button. Click Apply and exit.