10.5.6, File | Print .. crash

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Hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction.

In Safari, FireFox, Acrobat Reader all lastest versions.
If you click File, Print, you get the beach ball and about 20 seconds later, unexpectidly quit.

MS Office apps and CS3 apps seems to be ok.

Recently Esentials Suitecase fusion was installed and the user thought it coinsided with the trouble, I removed it using their uninstall instructions, restarted and with the same results.

It wouldn't be the printer as the other apps can use it just fun, right?

Do MS and CS have their own print engines? Perhaps the 10.5.6 upgrade went bad?

I have been reading a ton of items, anythin ideas at all would be fantastic.

Thanks
Jon
 

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The first thing I would do is to check for an updated printer driver, particularly if it's a Lexmark or HP inkjet.
 
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Thanks its a Canon IP printer, this behavior started suddenly.
Cleared a bunch of cache and most all applications print except Adobe Reader 8.1.3 and Photoshop ... uhg.

could it be a corrupt plist file?

Thanks again for the reply.
 

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It could be a lot of things, but the easiest thing to start with is the print driver as it does most of the heavy lifting, particularly with complex documents produced by Adobe products. I would definitely check for an updated driver, if you haven't already done so.
 

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