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Print from IE 11 on Windows 8.1

Ok - I feel a bit defeated. I can't seem to print anything from IE 11 (desktop) on my Win 8.1 laptop? Print preview is blank, and if I click Print, nothing happens at all...

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!
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what is the printer model, are you using the correct driver?
is this only problem of IE? printing from another browser or text editor is working fine?
If this is only about IE, then you can try to reset IE into default settings.
Also check if this is a problem on the same computer under differeent user account
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Thanks for the responses. I have no trouble printing from any other program or browser - just IE 11.

I have also attempted to print from IE when I run IE as administrator - I get the same result (nothing prints, cannot view anything in print preview).

@helpfinder - I will try resetting IE to its default settings and reply back...
if it won´t help check method 3-5 from this MS Technet article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973479/en-us
So I reset IE (desktop) to its default settings and rebooted. Still no printing. However, I did try printing web pages from the "metro" IE, and it worked just fine...

Very frustrating :(

I did try all options 3,4,5 from the article you shared @helpfinder... disabled protected mode, made sure the "Low" folder existed in my %temp% directory, and set the folder to low integrity level... No joy...
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I am able to print when logged in as another user on my laptop... so I assume my profile is jacked up somewhere?
probably yes. but to find where is a trick could be a time consuming.
I would login as different user with admin rights and rename affected user profile (from user to __user), then login as user what will recreate the profile and you can move files from old (__user) to new profile (user) - this comes to me as faster possible solution when we know it´s profile related
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Thanks all for the help. I will repair / redo my profile at some point, but I can't go through that at this time.