Brother Printer CUPS Driver conflict crashed host application

Question

I just bought a Brother MFC-J4710DW multifunction printer but whenever I select Printer Options from the pop-up menu of the print dialogue box, the application I am printing from crashes leaving an error message saying the following (TextEdit is only an example).
TextEdit quit unexpectedly while using the BRInkQuality12 plug-in.
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.
Basically, this means that I have no control over the print quality, which paper is used or which paper tray is selected.
BRInkQuality12 is the Brother CUPS driver and I found virtually nothing about it online, let alone any problems with it. I have spent some time with Brother technical support who basically said that they have not seen this problem before and as a result, I started doing my own troubleshooting.
It seems to be a problem with my user account as I have tried other accounts and it works fine. Permanently using a new user account isn't really an option I want to think about so I set about trying to track down whatever it is that ic causing the crash.
So far, I have repaired permissions, booted in safe mode without success. I then went through everything in my user account library and have eliminated everything systematically - rebooting dozens of times with groups of items removed and then replaced when the problem remained.
In the olden days, I would have been using Conflict Catcher to identify the problem but there doesn't seem to be anything like CC for OS X.
I would be very grateful if anybody has any suggestions on how to determine what is causing this or if anybody else has experienced it.

Answer 1

Thanks.
I looked at that earlier and searched online for EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) but I only found information which spoke of what I had already been doing.
Anyway, here is the first 'paragraph' from Console:
Process:         TextEdit [1327]
Path:            /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
Identifier:      com.apple.TextEdit
Version:         1.9 (310)
Build Info:      TextEdit-310000000000000~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [191]
Responsible:     TextEdit [1327]
User ID:         503
PlugIn Path:       /Library/Printers/Brother/PDEs/BRInkQuality12.bundle/Contents/MacOS/BRInkQualit y12
PlugIn Identifier: com.brother.print.pde.CocoaBRInkQuality12
PlugIn Version:    4.0.2 (11)
Date/Time:       2014-06-19 17:18:05.381 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  15188082-B259-420C-5294-44AAC8D81F85
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: isEqualToString:
Performing @selector(selectPDE:) from sender NSMenuItem 0x6080002abc40
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib               0x0000000105203097 objc_msgSend + 23
1   com.brother.print.pde.CocoaBRInkQuality12 0x00000001164aa3d6 -[BRInkPrintSetting12PDE determineUI:] + 597
2   com.brother.print.pde.CocoaBRInkQuality12 0x00000001164a688d -[BRPrintQualityPDE initializePopup] + 364
3   com.brother.print.pde.CocoaBRInkQuality12 0x00000001164acc22 -[BRInkPrintSetting12PDE initializePopup] + 74
4   com.brother.print.pde.CocoaBRInkQuality12 0x00000001164ab1dc -[BRInkPrintSetting12PDE willShow] + 43
5   com.apple.print.framework.Print.Private 0x00000001164288cb 0x116426000 + 10443
6   com.apple.print.framework.Print.Private 0x000000011642f2b7 0x116426000 + 37559
7   com.apple.print.framework.Print.Private 0x000000011642ef9c 0x116426000 + 36764
8   com.apple.AppKit               0x000000010597f260 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 327
9   com.apple.AppKit               0x000000010599a1c8 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 394
10  com.apple.AppKit               0x0000000105999f04 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 117
11  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e940d -[NSMenu _internalPerformActionForItemAtIndex:] + 35
12  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e9289 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl _carbonCommandProcessEvent:handlerCallRef:] + 104
13  com.apple.AppKit               0x000000010598fff6 NSSLMMenuEventHandler + 716
14  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107cdf1d4 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 892
15  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107cde787 SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 385
16  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107cf2880 SendEventToEventTarget + 40
17  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107d28640 SendHICommandEvent(unsigned int, HICommand const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned char, void const*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, OpaqueEventRef**) + 420
18  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107d5b228 SendMenuCommandWithContextAndModifiers + 59
19  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107d5b1d0 SendMenuItemSelectedEvent + 178
20  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107d5b0af FinishMenuSelection(SelectionData*, MenuResult*, MenuResult*) + 94
21  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107d3919e PopUpMenuSelectCore(MenuData*, Point, double, Point, unsigned short, unsigned int, Rect const*, unsigned short, unsigned int, Rect const*, Rect const*, __CFString const*, OpaqueMenuRef**, unsigned short*) + 1726
22  com.apple.HIToolbox           0x0000000107d382f6 _HandlePopUpMenuSelection7 + 596
23  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e8161 _NSSLMPopUpCarbonMenu3 + 4153
24  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e7116 _NSPopUpCarbonMenu3 + 39
25  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e6dd6 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl popUpMenu:atLocation:width:forView:withSelectedItem:withFont:withFlags:withOpti ons:] + 350
26  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e5a87 -[NSPopUpButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 531
27  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059e413d -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 706
28  com.apple.AppKit               0x0000000105965a58 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 11296
29  com.apple.AppKit               0x00000001059045d4 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 2021
30  com.apple.AppKit               0x0000000105754a19 -[NSApplication run] + 646
31  com.apple.AppKit               0x000000010573f7a3 NSApplicationMain + 940
32  libdyld.dylib                 0x000000010a0625fd start + 1