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I installed a new printer (Epson 1800 ecotank) last week and immediately, PS started crashing around 95% of the time I try to print.
I run a business that involves printing all day, every day, and this is completely doing my head in. PLEASE can someone suggest a solution?
I'm assuming this is a case of PS not liking the fact that the old printer (an Epson 1500) that the .PSD file references is no longer available.
I'm happy to re-input the new printer settings for each file. I am NOT happy to have to crash Photoshop, reset preferences file, and restart it for every single file I need to print.
Event viewer reports the same thing every time:
Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 21.2.2.289, Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.423, time stamp: 0x06701e03
I'm running Windows Pro 64 bit, i5 chip, 16GB ram. Nothing hardware wise has changed except installation of a new printer.
Since this problem started (a week ago)
I have literally THOUSANDS of files that I use daily. Having to crash photoshop, delete the preferences file, and start again for every single one is going to take weeks and weeks and be complete agony. Not to mention the inability to set any preferences. Working with PS at the moment is like swimming through liquid excrement.
If anyone has ideas or suggestions - I will be forever grateful! Apart from anything else, I will eventually have to switch printers again and the thought of going through this all over again is unbearable.
Thanks
Ruth
Full event log.
Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 21.2.2.289, time stamp: 0x5f2dd30a
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.423, time stamp: 0x06701e03
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000fed79
Faulting process ID: 0x109c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d681e69d22c531
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report ID: 7fcbeb0d-c7a2-48b5-b36c-d18f677f4c9f
Faulting package full name:
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Hi
See if method 2 is this thread helps
Also try this
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Hi Ged. I've tried this before but had another go after all the re-installation.The first option results in this
Could this be the problem? And if so, how do I fix it?
The second one - I've scanned the system twice in the past 24 hours (once with Microsoft Support mid-chat) and no issues found.
I've also done something called a DCIM which also found nothing.
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Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Indicate it was using some system service. Can you print to a File? Is it your Printer causing the issue?
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Hi JJMack
Thanks for responding - yes, I can print fine using all my other applications.
The test page prints correctly.
The problem is getting to the print dialog in Photoshop. If I can get to the print dialog, it's all good.
It seems to be something to do with bringing up the print dialog that crashes PS.
In about 5% of files, I get a "the saved printer information is no longer valid" or something along those lines, and the dialog then tells me I need to check my print settings, and then brings up the print dialog (where I can set print functions / paper size etc).
In the other 95% of files, PS just crashes. Sometimes I get the Adobe error report tool box up, most of the time it doesn't appear.
Sometimes using the drop down box to go to "Print One Copy" works (gets me to the "saved information not valid" message.
Sometimes making a small adjustment to the file, saving it, and reopening it works.
Sometimes absolutely nothing works, PS crashes over and over again, at which point I can only delete the PS Preferences file. This works for the first file, but after that - crashing resumes.
I'm not sure how to print to a file in Photoshop but it works fine in Word.
Any ideas?
Ruth
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As far as I know this is a long standing Photoshop issue. It does not like changing printers. I have a set-up with several printers and if I save a file AFTER I have printed then open it again when the default printer on Windows has changed, try to print and Photoshop crashes! Moral is to either NOT save files in Photoshop after printing, or don't change printer defaul outside Photoshop.
If I have saved a file accidentally after printing then I make a new blank file same size, move all layers across in a copy paste then use this copy file to print from and it works fine every time.
It's just a real pain that Photoshop has had this issue for years but the blame keeps being put on others.
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Hi Ruth,
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try the blank document-open print dialog method next time.
Clive