I cannot print or open print dialogue

This morning I moved my MBP from home to the office and I can't print from any application.
The print dialogue box takes an age to open and there are no printers in there.
Also System Pref - Printers takes an age to open and its empty no printers?
Any ideas how I can reset the printer service/setting to default and reset, or recover my printers.
Thx

Thanks for the update John.
Found the fix on another part of the apple forum (https://discussions.apple.com/message/10776232#10776232)
Ended up doing the following:
sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.old
sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

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