Error while printing - one solution.

Folks, I just ran into the "error while printing" priblem this morning and read many of the posts. Some even did a complete OS reinstall.
Anyhow, all I did was repair disk permissions on my machine and it solved the problem.

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me, so it doesn't seem to be a universal solution.

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