I have gotten a lot of emails lately about people having problems printing coupons. Here are all of the tips and tricks I know.

General Tips
If you have already downloaded the coupon printer and it keeps asking you to install it again, most likely your spyware or anti-virus software is blocking it. You must tell your software to allow the download.

You can print coupons in either black and white or color.

I keep my finger on my printer’s cancel button so that if an ad prints on the bottom, I don’t waste my ink on the ad.

Most printable coupons can be printed twice. Every once in a while there will be ones that offer more, but most coupons can be printed twice.

There are two main types of printable coupons:  bricks and smartsource. Below are the tips for if you are having trouble with these specific types of coupons.

Bricks Bricks coupons are coupons from Coupons, Inc. The web address starts out with http://bricks… The main problem with these coupons is that they are typically made for one web browser or another (i.e. Firefox or Internet Explorer). If you try and print it in a web browser that it is not made for, it will say Please Wait… and nothing will happen. You can fix this and make the bricks coupons work for the web browser you are using.

The letters “vi” that are circled in the address above are the letters that tell you what web browser this coupon is meant to printed in.

If you want to print in Internet Explorer these letters need to be wi

If you want to print in Firefox these letters need to be wg or vg

If you want to print in Safari, these letters need to be vi or xs

You can not print bricks coupons in Chrome

If this doesn’t work, towards the bottom will see a little help button. If you click on the help button it will either bring up a form for the manufacturer to mail the coupon to you or it will bring up a troubleshooting guide to help you. If it brings up the troubleshooting guide, then that means that the manufacturer has not chosen to make it available for being mailed out, so try the steps on the troubleshooting guide.

Smartsource Smartsource coupons are the coupons that are very slow to print out. It is not uncommon for you to need to wait a minute or two for it to load up and then print. To download Smartsource coupons you must have the latest version of Java downloaded and enabled on your computer.

If you have trouble with a retailer accepting Smartsource coupons, you can take this letter to the retailer and see if it helps change their mind about printables.

Do you know any tips that I missed? Please share with us in the comments.