Canon Professional Print and Layout won't launch from Lightroom

[Vendee]

A couple of months ago I bought a Canon PRO300 printer which I absolutely love. I also chose to use the Canon Professional Print and Layout software for making the prints. I think its a great piece of software which gets great results for me. I would edit my image in Photoshop and then launch the Canon PPL software from there using the installed plugin. It worked flawlessly.

Recently however I became converted to using Lightroom to edit my images but I can't launch the Canon PPL from Lightroom. The plugin is installed but when I launch PPL, I get a status message stating "Opening Canon Professional Print & Layout" but the message disappears after a few seconds and PPL does not load.

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Windows 10. Lightroom 12.1 Canon PPL 1.3.6

[GoldingD]

Have you tried removing it then reinstalling it?

[Vendee]

I've removed and reinstalled the Canon PPL software and the plugins. I've not touched Lightroom. I get round it by moving the image from LR to PS then using PS to transfer the image to Canon PPL. I'll wait until the next version of LR is released and see if that fixes the issue. Of course I don't know if the problem lies with LR or Canon. Thanks.

[jan kragj14053972]

Canon Professional Print and Layout won't launch from Lightroom CC.  

I have reinstalled the printer and teh pludin without succes. Mac Monterrey 12.6, Lightroom cc 15.3. Do my photos disappear if I reinstall Lightroom CC, the photos are on an external harddisc?

[Ian Lyons]

Historically, issues with Canon Printers / Software not working with Adobe software are resolved by rebiewing similar appeals for help on Canon's own Community forum. Examples being https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Software-Networking/Print-Studio-Pro-Problem-Starting-fro...

and https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Software-Networking/Print-Studio-Pro-Plugin-for-Lightroom...

and https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Software-Networking/Print-Studio-Pro-will-not-not-install...

[Andrew31611090vkx6]

Hi there, I have the same issue. Did you end up fixing this?

[Vendee]

Unfortunately not. I am waiting for a newer version of Canon Professional Print and Layout to be released but until then I'm exporting my images to Photoshop and then using the PPL plugin from there. Its strange that the Photoshop plugin works but the Lightroom plugin does not but I can see by looking at the respective pluging folders that the files are different for each application. 

[Aremel]

I have the same issue so at least I'm not alone. Alternatives? QImage Ultimate seems to work well but I'm a little disappointed, still.

[VengeMedia]

I have the same issue. 
Any word of a solution?

[defaultjht2ceehqjbd]

I too have the same problem, was ok until I upgraded Lightroom