Printing on Windows; There must be a printer driver available even if you are not actually printing

When MoneyWorks generates reports or forms, it queries the system’s printing system for localised page sizes. For this to work, there must be a printer driver available to provide that information. Usually, on Windows 10, even when there is no attached actual printer, there will be at least Microsoft XPS and Microsoft Print to PDF devices available, but if someone has removed all printer devices from your Windows system, then Printing, Previewing, and all other formatted output from MoneyWorks may fail.

In this situation, the solution is to re-add a printer device.

The following link explains how to re-add the Microsoft Print to PDF driver if it is missing.

How to Add or Reinstall the Microsoft PDF Printer 2021 Edition

The short instructions, for an up-to-date Windows 10 installation, are:

1. Open Cmd.exe with Administrator privileges.

2. Enter (all on one line)

dism /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:"Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features" /NoRestart

then

dism /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:"Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features" /NoRestart

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