{"id":268,"date":"2013-04-13T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwtest.tnes.dk\/?p=268"},"modified":"2024-09-18T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T19:08:21","slug":"eventid-1116-printer-auto-creation-failure-reason-addprinter-failed-with-status-0x706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Eventid 1116 &#8211; Printer auto-creation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0x706"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you get errors \u00a0in the application eventlog\u00a0with<em> ID 1116 &#8212; Printer auto-creation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0x706<\/em>, it&#8217;s because the print processor is missing for some reason, in the registry:<\/p>\n<p><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows x64\\Print Processors\\<\/code><\/p>\n<p>In my case it was the &#8220;<em>Citrix Print Processor<\/em>&#8221; that was missing. The key has to be created manually and has to contain a string named &#8220;<em>Driver<\/em>&#8221; and the value has to be the name of the .dll, in this case &#8220;<em>cpproc.dll<\/em>&#8220;, as you can see in my example below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/?attachment_id=269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-269 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Citrix-Print-Processor.png\" alt=\"Citrix Print Processor\" width=\"758\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Citrix-Print-Processor.png 758w, https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Citrix-Print-Processor-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Citrix-Print-Processor-500x164.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/a>If it&#8217;s HP, Minolta or anything else, the name and value can be different. Compare it with a working server, to get the correct result. After creating the registry-key, the <em>Print Spooler Service<\/em> has to be restarted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get errors \u00a0in the application eventlog\u00a0with ID 1116 &#8212; Printer auto-creation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0x706, it&#8217;s because the print processor is missing for some reason, in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows x64\\Print Processors\\ In my case it was the &#8220;Citrix Print Processor&#8221; that was missing. The key has to be created manually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eventid 1116 &#8211; Printer auto-creation failure. Reason: AddPrinter() failed with status 0x706&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37,48,31],"tags":[40,39,49,38],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citrix","category-printing","category-tips","category-windows","tag-0x706","tag-39","tag-citrix","tag-server-2008","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tnes.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}