Do you get the error notification ‘Sage 50 Printer not Activated Error Code 41’ when you are trying to save any log as a PDF file in your 64-bit edition of the Windows operating system? This sort of technical glitch can transpire probably when your Sage PDF driver is not updated. There are issues with printer software or printer drivers, wrong configuration of printer settings, operating system errors mounted on the printer-connected device, and more to understand why “Printer not activated, error code 41” pops up on screen.

Causes of Printer not activated error code 41

Below is the list of causes that leads to error code 41:

1. The opening of many apps without your permission.
2. Incurring of the blue screen of death error
3. Automatic shutdown
4. System crash, screen freezing
5. Incurring of the blue screen of death error
6. Cannot install or uninstall any files or apps
7. Cannot update the Windows
8. Slow performance of the computer

Step to Fix Sage Printer not Activated Error Code 41

Important tip: Before you make your mind to go ahead with the resolution steps, please make sure you take a backup copy of your critical business data.

Let’s have a glimpse at some of the easy to do steps to fix the error code 41 manually:

Solution 1:  Try to update your Sage 50 PDF driver

Sometimes, updating the Sage 50 PDF driver in such scenario can prove to be helpful in fixing the glitch when you are making an attempt to either view or save a report in PDF format. To update your Sage 50 PDF driver, please follow the given steps:

1. First of all, you have to visit the Sage website
2. Try to find Support, then select the Download software and related updates option
3. Now, you have to select the P11D option that you can easily find in the pull-down list as given there
4. Click on the Updates segment then try to the P11d PDF upgrade then select the Download.
5. Go to the File Download dialog box and to save the file to your desktop, hit on the Save button.
6. Again Navigate to the Save As dialog box, try to locate and choose the prerequisite destination, for instance, Windows desktop, and hit on the Save tab.
7. When the download process is over just select the Close button to exit from the window.

Now, you have completed the Sage 50 PDF Driver update.

To install this driver, you have to follow the given steps:

1. Click twice on the Sage PDF Updater.exe file
2. Press on the Next tab
3. Choose to Install the driver on your machine
4. Once the installation process is over, please reboot your machine

In case, you figure out that despite updating your Sage 50 PDF driver didn’t fix the issue at all then we would recommend you to try to upload your Sage 50 accounting software in a 32-bit edition of Windows operating system. You can install the same PDF driver in the same machine try to print once again.

Solution 2: Make use of a third-party PDF driver for your printer

To make use of the third-party PDF driver, you need to carry out the given steps:

1. First and the foremost thing that you need to do is install a third-party PDF driver for your printer, let’s say, CutePDF.
2. Go to the Start tab, try to find the Control Panel and click on same to open it
3. Search for Devices and Printers and do right click on SagePDFPrinter400.
4. Select the Remove Device and do right-click on the third-party PFD driver.
5. Lastly, browse Printer Properties and try to give a new name to the printer driver to SagePDFPrinter400.

Solution 3: Check printer configuration

Failure to configure printer-related settings may also cause “Unactivated printer, error code 41.” If the selected printer is not set as the default printer to perform the printing tasks, this problem is also known to arise. Users receiving “Printer not activated, error code 41” message are suggested to check the configuration of the printer and also to restart the system background printer spooler service. This can be done using the printers and fax option in the’ Start’ menu, and use the’ services.msc ‘ command under’ Run’ to restart the service.

Solution 4: Reinstall Printer drivers

To start this process the first step is to uninstall the printer driver. And to do this at first tap the Windows button from your keyboard. This will navigate you to the search bar of Windows. Next, you need to type MMC on it and then hit on entering. Now it will open the Microsoft Management Console window in the screen. Then you need to confirm that you want to make the changes by pressing on the Yes option.

After that select on Add/Remove Snap-in from the file menu. And then scroll down to get the Print Management Snap-in option, hit on it. Next, click on Add and choose to Add the Local Server from this menu. After that click on finish and then on OK.

Solution 5: Restart your system

1. Click on the Start in the left corner or press win key.
2. You have to Find and click the right-arrow next to the Shutdown button.
3. Select Restart option from the menu that appears

Solution 6: Correct printing permissions

1. the first step is to Open the Printers Control Panel in Windows.
2. on the option of Microsoft XPS Document Writer, you have to right click on it
3. choose Printer properties (Windows 7 & 8) or Properties (Windows Vista).
4. Click on the Security tab and Select the Everyone user group.
5. If the Everyone group is not on the list:
   1. Click on the Add button.
   2. Type  Everyone in the field and click on Check Names.
   3. Click OK.
6. , select Print, in the Allow column and click OK.
7. Now navigate to C:\Windows\System32\spool in Windows Explorer.
8. Right-click on the Printers and select Properties.
9. Click on the Security tab.
10. Select the Edit and Click Add.
11. Enter Local Service and press Enter.
12. Ensure that  Local Service has Full Control, then click on  OK.
13. Try to open the  QuickBooks and create a .pdf file.

 Solution 7: Disable loading program or service from start-up to avoid conflict

1. Click on “Start”, and to start the System Configuration Utility, type “msconfig” (without the quotation marks) in the open box
2. select the “Services” tab,
3. click “Disable All” if it is not gray and check the “Hide All Microsoft Services” box
4. Click on the “Startup” tab,
5. Select the “Disable All” and click “OK”.
6. to restart your computer to Selective Startup environment, Click “OK”
7. When the “System Configuration Utility” window is displayed on the screen, please check the “Don’t show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts” box and click on OK.

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