Resolve Brother Universal Printer Driver error: “The selected printing device is different from the one you last used”

Using a Brother printer in your LAN, this message might appear:

The selected printing device is different from the one you last used …

Message in German:

Der ausgewählte Drucker ist ein anderer als der zuletzt verwendete.
Wenn Sie denselben verwenden möchten, müssen Sie eine Suche durchführen.

Solution

Delete or rename file

%APPDATA%\Roaming\Brother\PrtDrv\BtUnivDrv\BRUNVPRNPC.ini

It should work immediately, no spool service restart etc. needed.

5 Comments

Ernst on Wednesday November 1st, 2017 at 03:12 PM

Great! Simply works!
Thank you, saved my day!
Ernst

Markus on Monday February 19th, 2018 at 12:17 PM

In my case the file was
%APPDATA%\Brother\PrtDrv\BtUnivDrv\BRUNVPRNPC.ini
without “\Roaming”

DJK on Tuesday June 5th, 2018 at 09:49 PM

This is great…but if you ahve more than one Brother printer using the Universal driver….the second time you print it throws the error againj.

Abe on Wednesday April 12th, 2023 at 06:02 PM

Did you ever find a solution to this?
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Karen Edge on Tuesday August 7th, 2018 at 01:58 PM

Thank you for posting this – it fixed it for me.

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