printer problems

I am running windows 2000 pro on my machine that is connected to the network that runs winNT and win2k server. The problem is that everytime I go into excel, word, pp, access and try to print, I get an error message saying there are no printers installed, use the printer option in control panel to install a printer. But there are printers installed, I ran test page on the printers which came out correctly, and I also was able to print from the web. It doesnt allow me to print while Im in word,pp,excel,access. Please help.