Printing from any application causes it to crash

I have the same problem too...after updating to 10.4.10 as well. I can print though if I log onto the machine that's having the problem from my machine.

It seems like the same problem was being mentioned in this thread : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=944798&tstart=90


A solution that worked for some people was removing the 'hpImaging.framework'file from the /Library/Printers/hp/Frameworks folder. I didn't try it yet, but it's a possible solution...

I don't have any answers for you, but I have had similar, recent problem. I have set up a new airport extreme network with my Powerbook G3 and two windows boxes. The windows machines can print to the printers fine, but now everytime I try to print from any application, any file type, the application crashes before it gets to the print dialog box. There is a delay while the computer seems to think about whether the app will crash, then it invariably does. This started after upgrading Adobe reader to version 8. I've removed it but still same thing. I actually upgraded from 10.4.5 to 10.4.10, as well as upgraded Quicktime and the latest security update, thinking this might fix it, but no.
You might want to try to run Disk Utility to scan your hard drive and make sure all the permissions are correct. I did this and the hard drive volume is fine, some of the permissions did get corrected, but still can't print without the app crashing.

Thanks, but this (reseting the print system) has been suggested several times and for many, it does not work. Glad it worked for you, but it didn't work for me and others. 🙂

Halistemma;
That was indeed quite brilliant suggestion, and worked for me, so far. I have not tried to print from networked printers yet.
To others that might still be trying to resolve this issue, you might want to try to download freeware utility called Onyx. Then under the maintainence tab, check LaunchServices database, then check reset. This deletes the cache database of links between applications and documents, then starts a new one. Your documents will still open the correct apps, but if there were some error or corruption there between application and say printer drivers, it might correct it.
I did this and then reset printer setup per Halistemma's suggestion and now I can at least print to some of my printers (haven't tried all of them yet).

I'm afraid that neither of the solutions above worked for me - print utility reset or Onyx. The problem only occurs when trying to print on my network from a new Macbook OS10.4.10 through Airport to an HP printer connected to an older iMac G5 (also 10.4.10). If I plug the Macbook in directly, it works. The Macbook finds the shared printer OK on the network.

I managed to make the idea suggested of loging on to the iMac work once, but I'm not sure how, nd couldn't repeat it.

At least I have discovered that there are others out there with the problem.

Grrrrrr!

Phillip;
My previous post of problem solved by resetting the PrintSetup utility, alas, was premature. When printers are connected directly to my computer, they print fine, but when I try to access printers over the network, the application I'm trying to print from crashes.

Same here, EXCEPT I can't print direct either! All apps crash immediately when I try to print (with a printer selected). If I do not have a printer selected, the print dialog box will open and still allow me to save to PDF, etc.

This has been happening since 10.4.9 on my MacBook Pro.

Why has this thread been marked as 'answered'? As far as I can read, we are none of us the wiser .... meanwhle my wife has to pass everything she wants printed to me on a memory stick. Not very hi-tech.

But sharing i-tunes is brilliant .... all I have to do is figure the B&O connection to get my music in full glorious surround in the living room (OK, that's not a Mac question).

Looking back over the contributions to this thread, I see a number of references to 'frameworks'. Yes I did delete the hpimaging.framework folder and it was no help.

But here's a curious thing: every time I open an MS Office application, it presents ths error message: "An unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework Library". I just ignore it as it doesn't seem to affect the functionality of Word, Excel, etc.

But that word 'Framework' again ... could this be a clue that someone knowledgable might be able to build on, with regard to our 'printing crashes applications' problem?

I am also having this problem. i.e. printing from any application on an Intel Mac Mini to an HP 6210 All-in-One printer shared from a PowerPC G4 Mac causes any application to crash. However, printing to the network printer from a PowerPC MacBook works.

Here is the complete crash dump. I am a Linux guy, but I assume that an EXC BADACCESS is a Segmentation Fault. 'libAiOHPUtils.10.dylib' is the source of this problem. Above,someone mentioned that reinstalling the drivers didn't help, so I'm at a loss--has anyone had this problem the other way around? i.e. printing to an intel mac from a ppc? I think i'll just network the printer from a different box 😉

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CRASH DUMP:
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Host Name: minibox
Date/Time: 2007-08-03 10:57:51.129 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2232)
Report Version: 4

Command: TextEdit
Path: /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
Parent: WindowServer [65]

Version: 1.4 (220)
Build Version: 428
Project Name: TextEdit
Source Version: 2200000

PID: 274
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC BADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN INVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa1b1c1d3

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90811125 CFRetain + 56
1 libAiOHPUtils.10.dylib 0x15085fe0 AHPString::AHPString[in-charge](__CFString const*, __HPStri
ngImmutable const*) + 84
2 libAiOHPUtils.10.dylib 0x15031335 AJobSettings::ReadJobTemplate(APuffinTemplate const*) + 127
5
3 com.hp.print2.aio.pde.Puffin 0x14b4fb2f 0x14b1d000 + 207663
4 com.hp.print2.aio.pde.Puffin 0x14b50558 0x14b1d000 + 210264
5 com.hp.print2.aio.pde.Puffin 0x14bfa84a TwoSidedPrintingPdePluginFactory + 6408
6 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x006956aa DNSSDMenuHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef
*, void*) + 1500
7 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x00685de4 DeallocPageSetupDialogHandlerTimer(__EventLoopTimer*, void*
) + 1920
8 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x006891db DeallocPageSetupDialogHandlerTimer(__EventLoopTimer*, void*
) + 15223
9 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x00686328 DeallocPageSetupDialogHandlerTimer(__EventLoopTimer*, void*
) + 3268
10 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x00686b00 DeallocPageSetupDialogHandlerTimer(__EventLoopTimer*, void*
) + 5276
11 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x0068d1df PMPrivatePrintDialogInit + 1235
12 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x0068da2a PMPrivatePrintDialogInit + 3358
13 ...int.framework.Print.Private 0x0068c848 PMPrivatePrepareAppKitPrintDialog + 322
14 ...apple.print.framework.Print 0x92cbb08f PMPrepareAppKitPrintDialog + 119
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x934cce0d -[NSPrintPanel beginSheetWithPrintInfo:modalForWindow:deleg
ate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:] + 287
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x934cc6b4 -[NSConcretePrintOperation runOperationModalForWindow:deleg
ate:didRunSelector:contextInfo:] + 457
17 com.apple.TextEdit 0x0000ad50 0x1000 + 40272
18 com.apple.TextEdit 0x0000abb7 0x1000 + 39863
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x9336fd88 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 107
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x9341dce7 -[NSMenu performActionForItemAtIndex:] + 455
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x9341da29 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIn
dex:] + 103
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9341d680 -[NSMenu performKeyEquivalent:] + 766
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x9341d0a2 -[NSApplication _handleKeyEquivalent:] + 254
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x93350d87 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 3542
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x9327bdfe -[NSApplication run] + 547
26 com.apple.AppKit 0x9326fd2f NSApplicationMain + 573
27 com.apple.TextEdit 0x00001d26 0x1000 + 3366
28 com.apple.TextEdit 0x0000bef9 0x1000 + 44793

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9001a1cc select + 12
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 pthreadbody + 84

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x908110fb ecx: 0xa1b1c1d3 edx: 0xbffff070
edi: 0xbffff084 esi: 0xa1b1c1d3 ebp: 0xbfffeeb8 esp: 0xbfffee90
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x90811125 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

Binary Images Description:
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aUI
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..... (truncated as irrelevant) .....

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Thanks for any help!
Peter

I just recently added our first mac (intel mac pro, 10.4.9) to our widows network. This is also the first mac I’ve worked with. I’ve been trying to find a solution for our applications crashing when print is selected.

I haven’t seen a solution in this forum yet that seems to resolve the problem. I did resolve my problem today and thought I should share what I’ve found.

We have about 15 network printers ranging from small format b/w and color to wide-format b/w and color printers. We need the mac to help improve our ability to deal with large files using adobe software.

I started installing the small format printers first. B/W printers and two of our fiery color laser printers installed with no problems. The first time selecting print crashed the program, I had just installed #3 fiery color printer. After trying several things I deleted the #3 fiery printer. Then I could print to the other network printers again. I found the driver I selected wasn’t the correct one and (I guess) caused the crashing problem.

The second time this happened was a little different. I now had most of the small format printers connected and was installing the first of our epson wide-format network printers. I was having problems installing it so I went to apple’s website that linked me to epson’s latest mac drivers. This driver required that I double click the icon and it installs the files automatically. I then added the printer.

Once again when selecting print the program (adobe ps and acrobat) would crash. I figured the epson was doing this as I had just installed it. So I deleted the epson. Still crashed. I uninstalled the epson files with no luck. Tried several things I found in this forum without any luck.

Today I decided to try deleting all the printers I had installed one by one, and try to print after deleting each one. Luckily the first one I deleted (one of the fiery color printers) resolved the problem. I have since reinstalled the fiery printer with no problems. It seems the epson driver somehow may have corrupted the fiery driver???

I don’t know how or why one print driver will crash the whole print ability, but it seems to be how it is. It may not work for anyone else but I would try deleting printers and testing each time until (hopefully) the ability to print works again.

I’m concerned now about adding the wide-format epson’s to the mac. For now I’ll print to them through the windows systems.

Maybe Leopard will resolve this issue?

I have the same problem with DELL drivers for Laser printers (3100cn, 3110cn, 5100cn). Everything worked fine with many other printers (HP, Xerox, Canon, etc.) until I installed a DELL driver.
This occured on two different PPC Macs (10.4.9 and 10.4.10). I have not yet tried to remove the printers one by one and reintroduce them in a different order as suggested in this forum. When you have many printers installed on several computers you think twice before doing this !!