Re: Odd printer solution

On 12/18/23 8:11 AM, KenW wrote:
> 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



Thanks for the reply but I had tried that and confirmed that Photoshop 
Elements was set yo use that printer.

None of the other apps required any tweaking, I sent a job to the 
printer and it worked the first time.