Fix printing problems in Firefox

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-printing-problems-firefox?

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Already tried resetting and completely resetting the printer as mentioned in the help files. Still no resolution.

You can use some free PDF printer drivers as alternatives :

• PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/
• PDFCreator - http://www.pdfforge.org/
• PDF24 Creator - http://en.pdf24.org/creator.html

See also

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-pages-to-pdf/

Here's how I solved this issue on my installation today (Firefox 29, PC, Windows 7 Pro):

1. Go to Options
2. Click on the Applications tab
3. Find and select Portable Document Format (PDF) in the Content Type column.
4. In the corresponding Action column select "Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)".
5. Click on OK

You may need to restart Firefox, but I didn't. Before the change, my installation had "Preview in Firefox" as the action for PDFs.

Thanks, but I have Win8. Regardless, I'm not using Acrobat, I am using Firefox's native support. It used to work fine and I can still see the PDF, it just prints blank pages.

Thanks, appreciate the links for PDF driver add ons, this will be my last resort if nobody else can figure it out. I don't use Acrobat because of all their bloatware and hidden installs. I still would like to know why Firefox started printing blank pages in PDF's, but can still open the PDF's, very frustrating. Seems like a few other people are having the issue as well.

Fix for Firefox 29 printing blank PDF pages. While in Firefox, left click on Open Menu (three horizontal lines, upper right corner)/Options/Portable Document Format (PDF)/Action - change to: Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)

hello anyuser256, there is currently a bug in the integrated firefox pdf viewer which produces the blank prints - this is something currently investigated by our developers. as a workaround in the meantime you could use a third-party pdf plugin like from adobe, like suggested by other respondents in the thread already: View PDF files using Firefox’s built-in viewer

Recommending the usage of the Adobe Reader is no solution. We use the internal PDF viewer intentionally due to the poor security of Adobe's Reader

as mentioned before this is only meant as a temporary workaround.

Our workaround is, to NOT change the original behavior and tell the users to use the download button and then open it in a third-party viewer. (which in the end is Adobe Reader, but this way, the website itself cannot start this buggy plugin unnoticed)

you can follow the progress in getting this issue fixed in bug #1003707

Use Internet Explorer or another Browser until Mozilla Firefox fixes the problem. It is most definitely a Mozilla Firefox problem with this new V. 29.

Actually, JUST found solution to this problem.

Go to tools go to options go to applications scroll down to Portable Document Format (PDF) change action to use Adobe Acrobat reader or whatever PDF program you prefer that is on your computer.

Internet Explorer is NEVER a proper workaround for Firefox issues! Even if Firefox is completely dead, a proper workaround is using Chrome/Opera/lynx/telnet/...

firefox 29.0.1 has just been released, which contains a fix for this issue - an update is recommended for everyone affected: Update Firefox to the latest release