Current Internet browsers help us in many situations in our daily work with the PC . Not in vain software solutions such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge, are one of the most used programs at the moment on any computer.
And we must bear in mind that these programs that we are talking about, at the moment are not only limited to allowing us to navigate. From these we can work in the cloud, interact with users from all over the world, play online, etc. For all this, its developers, companies of the importance of Google, Microsoft or Mozilla , do not stop working to bring us the latest news.
As many of you may already know by now, in this particular sector, the most used solution around the world, and by far, in Google’s Chrome. At the moment it has around 70% market penetration , a figure that is not at all negligible.
Chrome has bugs that we can fix
In addition to all this we must add that the software of the search giant works on most platforms and operating systems. But that does not mean that, despite its enormous market penetration, it is infallible software, far from it.
Keep in mind that as a program as important as Chrome gains in users and functions, the chances of it failing also increase. This is largely due to the fact that with the arrival of new and more advanced features, errors also occur in greater numbers as a general rule. But yet and thus, the fact is that here we are talking about programs quite robust and stable in general terms. In fact, in these same lines we are going to focus on one of the most common Chrome errors.
This can happen unexpectedly, but at the same time we can take several ways to try to solve it ourselves.
To give us an idea, here we want to focus on that moment when we try to print a document from the browser and an error appears on the screen. And it is that although a priori this is a simple task, that of printing, many other factors come into play. But in addition to being simple, it is very important on many occasions, especially if we take into account the enormous amount of content that we deal with from here. That is why from these same lines we are going to talk about a series of solutions for printing problems in Google Chrome .
How to fix problems when printing in Chrome
Ta and as we could affirm of the majority of the current Internet browsers, the fact of being able to print from them is something really comfortable. Thanks to this function integrated in these software solutions, we can send to the printer everything that we find in the visited websites. Be it texts, photos, complete websites , etc .; All of this can be transferred directly to paper, something very useful if we browse a lot. But of course, as we mentioned before, this does not always work as well as we would like, detecting some faults when we get ready to print.
It is worth mentioning that to make use of it, we just have to go to the main menu of the program, and click on the Print option.
Therefore, as we mentioned, in the event that we cannot print directly from Google Chrome, there may be several possible causes.
Printer physical connectivity
Although it sounds more absurd than you might think, it is more than common for the failure to be caused by a bad connection. That is why first of all we should make sure that the USB cables are correctly plugged in if necessary. What’s more, we recommend trying another USB port in the case of the computer. Of course we must also make sure that the printer itself is turned on.
If we have it connected via WiFi , we must also know that a general WiFi password change directly affects the operation of this component.
Problems with some websites
On the other hand, if all this is in order, let’s move on to the browser as such. In fact, we recommend you try several different websites that contain content of all kinds. We say this because sometimes it may be the case that we cannot print from Chrome because some graphics, photos or fonts are not compatible or are damaged, so they cannot be printed properly.
Thus, if everything works correctly in the rest of the Internet portals, we already know that the problem is limited to that specific website. Therefore, we can always capture that problematic content to convert it into an image and print it from any program compatible with this photographic file .
Try printing with other programs
It may also be the case that there is precisely a problem with this Chrome functionality at that moment. Therefore at this point it is advisable to try to print something basic from any other application. This way we make sure that the failure does not come from the hardware device as such. As an example, we will tell you that this is something we can do with programs such as the popular Word or Excel , among many others.
Print Driver Problems
It may also be the case, if we cannot print from other applications either, that the problem is given by Windows itself. By this we mean that we could be using damaged or old print drivers . That is why another step to take in this same sense is to update these software elements. In fact, they are key so that the device can work in the operating system and its applications.
Therefore, the best thing we can do here is access the Device Manager, for example by right-clicking on the Start button. Next we will see on the screen a list of all the components that are part of the equipment, so we have to find the one corresponding to the printer. Once we see it, we click with the right mouse button on it and select the Update driver option.