P: Problem with zoom to fill in lightroom print mode

My print had a funny looking tint, after zI stopped using Zoom to Fit, my print were better, but I had to make many more adjustment to finaling get a good print, plus my presets were orint incorrecly.

For Ventura users: I just tried the Adobe Color Print Utility (only needed to print targets for color management profiles). The first time I opened it since updating to 13.0.1, once again, the WRONG radio button was seen, just like Lightroom Classic. Quit, tried again, and it defaulted to the correct setting. Beware!!!

I have reverted to LR version 12 and relaunched with a back up catalog from last month and everything so far is looking back to normal. I'll wait a while before upgrading anything again!

I tried removing the preferences file and resetting this at LR start up.  This did not stop the crashes. I tried removing all the start up items and ensured there were no windows reopening at start up. No difference, still LR crash at start up.  Next I gave the second user account admin status and removed admin status from the main account.  I thought I was making progress, as LR did not crash the first time I accessed page set up.... but it did the second and subsequent times.   A restart did not change this.  The second admin account continues to work normally.  Mystery deepens for me!

The problem could be be LR's preferences, the print driver's preferences, or other turds left on disk in per-user files (e.g. in ~/Library).  Reinstalling typically doesn't delete preferences, though it often will delete other detritus.  When you switch to a new user account, the software no longer accesses those old per-user files.

Did you try resetting LR's preferences?

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/ 

My Mac shows a bunch of Epson preference files in ~/Library/Preferences. including one for my XP-15000.

Many thanks. Some work to do.  Just confirming that upgrading the new user account to LR 12.01 did not bring back the crashes. 

So yes, the switch to another user indicates it's not a LR bug itself but a conflict with something else. So here's the tough part. Since it doesn't crash as a new user, there is a conflict with something in the original (Admin?) user that is making it crash. The hard part is figuring out what that is. The first task is to disable all auto log in items in Users and Groups>Login Items in your System preferences (System Settings in Ventura). You can make a screen capture or jot down what each item is, disable, restart and try again. If it doesn't crash, you can add one or more items, restart and try again. At some point, you may find which item is at issue. It isn't easy but that's really the fix unless you do a clean install of the OS which might be more work. 

The bottom line is, that something in your user account is conflicting with Lightroom. Gotta find out what that item is. 

I set up a new user account, as suggested on the other thread, imported a couple of pics and tried printing in LR. This worked, with normal paper dialog boxes and profiles. Print was normal. Does the give a clue as to what the corruption might be on the normal account? LR 12.0.  Maybe I should upgrade this to 12.1 and see if the crashes return?

Then maybe do the Epson Enema and install the print drivers (from Epson) again: 

 1. Delete all instances of Epson printers from System Preferences (System Settings in Ventura)>Print & Fax.


 2. Then go to /Library/Printers and toss the whole Epson folder.


 3. Toss LFP Remote Panel (IF you are using this utility for your printer).


 4. Then reinstall drivers from Epson and never Apple.

NOTE: IF you have more than one Epson printer, you need to install the driver in the order of their release! Older then newer or you run into issues (eg, install 4800 before you’d install 3880).

Yes 12.62 for the epson driver