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  • Re: Odd printer solution

    From KenW@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 19 01:11:27 2023
    On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:50:57 -0600, philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    Just installed a new Canon Pro-300 om my wife's Win11 machine.
    Booted up and it had automatically installed. I set it as default and
    tried it from several photo editing apps and it worked just fine the
    very first time ....except....from Photoshop Elements, when I went to
    print ...a dialog came up that said "cannot open printer."

    I confirmed that the printer was listed as the default for the app and I >could even access ink levels of the printer from within Photoshop Elements.

    Since I fooled with all settings I could possibly think of, while it was >printing from another app, I opened "Elements" and attempted to send a
    job to the printer and doggone it, as soon as the first print was done,
    the job that I sent to it printed. Now it works fine from "Elements."


    Anyone know what the heck was going on?

    There is a printer setting in Win 11 'let windows select default
    printer' or something like that. Maybe took some time for Win 11 to
    check and change printer.


    KenW

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  • From Bob F@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 19 07:28:23 2023
    On 12/17/2023 4:50 PM, philo wrote:
    Just installed a new Canon Pro-300 om my wife's Win11 machine.
    Booted up and it had automatically installed. I set it as default and
    tried it from several photo editing apps and it worked just fine the
    very first time ....except....from Photoshop Elements, when I went to
    print ...a dialog came up that said "cannot open printer."

    I confirmed that the printer was listed as the default for the app and I could even access ink levels of the printer from within Photoshop Elements.

    Since I fooled with all settings I could possibly think of, while it was printing from another app, I opened "Elements" and attempted to send a
    job to the printer and doggone it, as soon as the first print was done,
    the job that I sent to it printed. Now it works fine from "Elements."


    Anyone know what the heck was going on?

    You re-booted the PC?


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