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    From philo@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 17 18:50:57 2023
    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?

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  • From KenW@21:1/5 to philo on Mon Dec 18 07:11:27 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 philo@21:1/5 to KenW on Mon Dec 18 13:00:40 2023
    On 12/18/23 8:11 AM, KenW wrote:
    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



    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.

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