Printing and WORD difficulties

See macoS Sierra: Reset the printing system. Same drill for Mojave. When you get to the re-add printer phase, the name of your previous printer will already be in the list, so you can just check it.

You tell us nothing about your printer model. Even if HP provided drivers for High Sierra 10.13.n, there is no assurance that those drivers will work under Mojave. If the last available drivers were released prior to 2017, then you may have an HP paperweight. If we knew the printer model, we could look at alternative driver availability.

If you are using Office 2008 or 2011 for Mac, Microsoft does not recommend them for macOS High Sierra or later. In fact, neither were tested against High Sierra, and Office 2011 received its last update (14.7.7) in Sept 2017, just before Microsoft ceased all support for it in Oct 2017. The best that you can hope for in compatiblity will be the very last Office 2016 for Mac update. As Mojave is brand new, it may take some time for Microsoft to fix any major issues in Office 2016 for Mac, and post an appropriate update. This happens every year at this time.

Were there any issues during the running of that HP Easy Start? Perform a Safe boot, followed by a normal reboot. Safe mode is just holding the shift key down at boot until you see the normal progress bar. Safe mode will not load some drivers, and screen aberrations are harmless, but likely.

According to Microsoft Office support for macOS 10.14 Mojave - Office Support, Microsoft hasn't tested Word 2011 and earlier on Mojave. You could try upgrading Word, if possible.

You could send feedback to Apple:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

You could also post the crash log from /Utilities/Console here, see if anybody can help.

The link in your first line is broken: "we can't find the article." It appears (from the count on the previous page) that quite a few people are having this same problem. I have a MacBook Air and a quite-new HP Office Jet 7720 that worked perfectly under the previous operating system. I can still print with no problem off of my iPad. When I try to download the printer software, it starts, and then it says, Safari can't resume this download. It 'doesn't appear' to be a valid download file, even though it's the one HP says to use. Whenever I try to print anything using either the short cut or the command, I just get knocked off of Word.

HI, I have word 2008 for mac and the version is 12.3.6 (130206) When I print from pages it is fine, but when I try to print from word then word crashes. I can go to print preview and it will print that way but that just doesn't work for multiple copies and is a pain. What do I need to do?

Thank you.

It's hard to understand how Apple could be so cavalier in its response to this problem. I rely on my Mac to do my work and simply having it not print because of incompatibility issues is crazy making.

Did you download and install the HP Easy Start 2.9.0.180 from Sep 24, 2018? Install it and follow the Reset Printing System steps.