Cannot select 'properties' when I choose to print - printer newly installed on Vista

For QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Enterprise Solutions working on the Windows XP platform:

1. Choose Windows Start button and open the Printers and Faxes window.
2. Right-click the QuickBooks PDF Converter icon and choose Properties.
3. Click the Ports tab. Click the Add Port button.
4. Select Local Port. Click the New Port button.
5. For the new port name, enter PDF1. Click OK.
6. Close the Printer Ports window.
7. Select the PDF1 checkbox, if it is not already.
8. Click the Advanced tab.
9. Select Spool print documents option.
10. Clear the Enable advanced printing features checkbox.
11. Select the Print directly to printer option.
12. Click the Apply button. Click OK.
13. Choose Windows Start and choose Run.
14. In the Open field, enter %windir%. Click OK.
15. Right-click the System32 folder and choose Properties.
16. In the Properties window, click the Security tab.
17. In the Group or user names list, select Users. In the Permissions for Users list in the Allow column, select Read, if not already selected, and select Write.
18. Click the Apply button. To save the changes, click OK.
19. Restart your computer.
20. Note: For the changes to take effect, you must restart your computer.

For QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Enterprise Solutions working on the Windows Vista platform:

1. Make sure that you are logged in as Windows Admin.
2. Choose Windows Start > Printers.
3. Right-click the QuickBooks PDF Converter icon and choose Properties.
4. Click the Ports tab. Click the Add Port button.
5. Select Local Port. Click the New Port button.
6. For the new port name, enter PDF1. Click OK.
7. Close the Printer Ports window.
8. Select the PDF1 port checkbox, if it is not already.
9. Click the Advanced tab.
10. Select the Spool print documents option.
11. Clear the Enable advanced printing features checkbox.
12. Select the Print directly to printer option.
13. Click the Apply button. Click OK.
14. Restart your computer.
    • Note: For the changes to take effect, you must restart your computer.
15. From QuickBooks, print, email, or create a PDF document.

For QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Enterprise Solutions working on the Windows 7 platform:

1. Make sure that you are logged in as Windows Admin.
2. Choose Windows Start > Devices and Printers.
3. Right-click the QuickBooks PDF Converter icon and choose Printer Properties.
4. Click the Ports tab. Click the Add Port button.
5. Select Local Port. Click the New Port button.
6. For the new port name, enter PDF1. Click OK.
7. Close the Printer Ports window.
8. Select the PDF1 port checkbox, if it is not already.
9. Click the Advanced tab.
10. Select the Spool print documents option.
11. Clear the Enable advanced printing features checkbox.
12. Select the Print directly to printer option.
13. Click the Apply button. Click OK.
14. Restart your computer.
    • Note: For the changes to take effect, you must restart your computer.
15. From QuickBooks, print, email, or create a PDF document.

Hope that it will work for you,

Thanks,
She Morillo

Remove all existing printer installations (delete printer instance from installed printers list). Depending on Windows 7 version, download the Vista x64 or Vista 32 drivers from: Select software and drivers.
Download the Print Driver Package, not the Plug and Play Package.
Ensure that the printer USB is NOT CONNECTED. Run the driver installation program, making note of the folder to which it installs the files.
Plug in printer USB Windows 7 will detect the printer but will prompt that the printer was not installed successfully. Do not attempt searching for drivers at this point.
Go to “Devices and Printers” , there you will find the HP 1020 newly installed. Right click on it, and select properties.
Click General tab, click “Make changes”, find again "properties" and "Update driver".
Click update drivers, then select “Browse my computer” and navigate to the driver installation folder that you have previously written down. Click OK to install drivers.

You need to go to printers and choose 'add a printer'. Under add printer, choose the printer called "MS FAX." That will install microsoft fax as a printer. Next, print your document by going to File, Print... (make sure it says "PRINT..." then you should see a selection screen, choose ms fax, and there you go. That should do it.

go to www.hp.com
>click on support and drivers tab
>tick on the box that says download sw and drivers
>type in your printer model number then click go
>it will open new window
>select your operating system (vista)
>select full feature sw and drivers
>downloaqd and save this in your pc
>after downloading run the sw and install it on oyur system

Have you got the Vista driver installed.?
Vista has many driver problems and manufactuers are not addressing them

Go to HP site for a Vista driver download,
or go to www,fixyourownprinter.com/forums and put this problem there

well...the printer settings will be the key. open them up and make certain that you're tray assignments are in line with your A4 paper.

Sounds like it might be the same problem I had on my HP C7180. It seems to be rampant throughout their Multifunction printers.

My Fix, combining several others:

1. Go to Printers and Faxes on your Start Menu. In the Printers window, select Server Properties from the File menu. Use the Forms tab of the Print Server Properties dialog box to view printer forms. You may also see lots of forms that you wish your printer could see, but don't worry, it'll see the one you create now. And be sure when you create your form that you use the narrower dimension for the width and the longer dimension for the height. Usually for envelopes you will print in landscape mode.
2. Select the Create A New Form check box.
3. Enter a new name for the Form in the Form Description For field.
4. Use the fields in the Measurements area to set the paper size and margins. *Use the narrower dimension for the width and the longer dimension for the height*.
5. Choose the Save Form button to save the form. The Save Form button only gets pick-able when you type in a different name than what's there already.

Now go to your document program, such as Word. Make sure the window for the document you want to print is the active window. Select File/Page Setup..., Paper Size Tab, and there select the form you just created from the dropdown list

Still in your document program, select File/Print... then Properties. Select the Features tab, which may be differently named. Under Resizing Options/Size dropdown, select More... and there you'll find your newly created form down at the bottom, under Custom. Pick it.

If you're printing envelopes or other things where the way you view it it's wider side-to-side than it is tall, be sure and select "landscape" in both "page setup..." on your document program and in File/Print.../Properties/Features?Basic Options.

When I did all this methodically, I was able to print my Christmas envelopes. Yay!

In Win7.Ultimate.x86 ver 7600.16385.090713-1255, go to the Control Panel->View devices and printers, right click on “Epson EPL-5900L Advanced”, select printer properties, click “OK”, select advanced, set “print direcfly to the printer”.
It worked!

Ok here we go
unplug your printer (from usb)
1.) Click start / right click my computer choose properties
2.) choose device manager
3.) right click on anything on the tree view and choose scan for hardware changes

5. put in your printer driver an begin the instilliation process
6.) when it ask to connect your printer connect it and ensure it is on
7.) it should detectyour printer automatically
8.) if it fails to do this, leave the program running and repeat steps 1 to 3 it will find your printer and install it..

9.) if that still fails click start / control panel / classic view and then choose Problems and reports..

A MISSING DRIVER problem should show up there. select it and choose solve problem via the internet..

To resolve this, try the following actions:

* Check the default fonts within Microsoft Windows.
* Select your entire document and set it to a larger font.
* Make sure all your fonts are loaded properly.
* Change the resolution to quick print at 600 dpi. To do so:

1. Click Start, Settings, Printers.
2. Right click the Lexmark printer icon and choose Properties.
3. Choose the Document/Quality tab and set the resolution to 600 dpi quick print/draft.

* Change the Spool Data Format to RAW. To do this:

1. Click Start, Settings, Printers.
2. Right click the Lexmark printer icon and choose Properties.
3. Select the Details tab and click Spool Settings.
4. In the Spool Settings screen, set the Spool Data Format to RAW.
5. Click OK and then Apply.