Re: Odd printer solution

On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:50:57 -0600, philo <[email protected]> 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