Trouble installing a network attached printer

Hello
we have a windows 2003 server working as a print server with several shared printers. I have never had a problem just clicking on the shared printers and having the drivers downloaded and installed automatically on any windows 7 pc. I just had
to reinstall windows 7 from scratch on a dell pc, and everything works however when I click on the shared printers on this particular pc, it first goes and says "checking windows update for drivers" and eventually comes back and says a printer
driver could not be found.
It happens for any shared printer, and it only happens on this one pc.
thanks in advance for any ideas
Jo

Hi,
It seems that your printer driver is not installed or corrupted.
Please remove and re-add the printer for this particular PC, download the proper driver from its official website and install it.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

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