Printing shuts down applications

Hello ski:

You might try uninstalling the printer and then reinstalling it.

If that does not work, there are a bunch of preference file (plist) for both the printer and from HP. You could try moving them to the desktop one at a time (or all at once) and restarting. One of those "may" have become corrupted.

Barry

Hi, the problems I'm having perhaps could be related. I'm using a printer HP Laserjet P1005 with latest HP specific driver version 1.0.6 on my MacBook Pro with sys 10.5.6. Whenever i try to print to it from Filemaker Pro 8.5, the program quits/crashes. This is NOT happening when printing on other printers I have nor when printing from other applications. It happens a few seconds after the PRINT window appears. I have already removed and reinstalled FMP a couple of times, but nothing, and it works perfectly with other printers. I tried to delete the HP P1005 printer from the printer list in printer&fax preferences and it seems to be removed BUT after a reboot it appears back in the list. I tried with "reset all printing sys" but it deleted all other printers but NOT the P1005.
Any suggestion ? any known workaround ? How can I manually erase that printer/driver ? Thanks

Do you see the plugin if you look in the /<hard drive>/Library/Printers/hp/PDEs folder? I don't have that file, but I have not installed the scanning software. If you find this file, you can remove it or erename it. That should get you around the crash, but you may lose some functionality.
Hope this helps.

Hi guys and have an happy new year. Well, I followed hints by John and removed all the following files from: HD > library >printer > HP >:
from folder AIO: hp aio_print2pde.plugin + hp aio_print2pm.plugin
from folder PDEs: hpPostScriptPDE.plugin
from folder laserjet: hprlPDE.plugin + hprlPM.plugin
Relaunched FMP and rebooted, tried to print but nothing changed, as before, just after 5 sec from "PRINT" window appears, the application crashes.
Some like 15 years in Apple world and I can not find a workaround, I've got to think about this!
Well, hope someone has a bright idea, thank for your attention, see you later. Bye.

Hi everyone,
I recently bought a HP LaserJet P1505 printer and it was working fine with my Mac notebook until yesterday. Every time I try to print a document or page from any application (Firefox, Safari, Word, Excel and etc.) I receive this message: The program has quit unexpectedly. The problem may be caused by the HP1006PDE Plug-in. My computer seems to be crashing. Is it my Macbook or the printer that is causing this problem?

Thank you in advance for your responses.

I think removing all these files might have been overkill. Were you getting a message about a specific plugin crashing? If so, renaming or removing that one alone should be sufficient. It's hard to predict what can happen when this many files are removed or renamed.

It's the printer software that's causing the problem.

You can look in /<hard drive>/Library/Printers/hp/laserjet/ to see if you can find the HP1006PDE Plug-in, though I am not sure why the P1505 is using the PDE for the HP1006. It may also be in the following location: /<hard drive>/Library/Printers/hp/PDEs. If you find the HP1006PDE plugin, renaming it or deleting it should get you past the crash.

Hope this helps.

That worked for me as well. Although I just renamed the file to /Library/Printers/hp/aio/hpaio_print2pde.plugin.causes.crash.when.attempting.to.print.plugin so I'd remember why I renamed it.