LR3 won't print to my printer with postscript driver

System config below. Can print to USB attached Epson R1800 no problem. Can print to network attached HP2840 with the PCL drivers (though it comes out in black and white not colour). Can not print to HP2840 using Postscript drivers through either its USB or network port. Process monitor shows print engine thread consuming 1 CPU for each print job launched. Cancelling the print job in LR3 does NOT kill the print engine thread (!), leaving LR3 consuming 50% of my total CPU resource when I've tried to launch 2 print jobs. This worked fine under LR2.7 and all previous. No changes to printer drivers / config since LR3 upgrade.
Anybody with any suggestions and or experience (good or bad) with other postscript printing would be appreciated.
cheers
Rod
Quad core 3.4GHx, 8GB 1066Mhz RAM, System on SSD. Catalogue on (huge and fast) workstation RAID. nVidia GTX8800. Dual screen

Sigh...
Rebooted several times still same problem.
Installed latest Windows updates and rebooted, printing now works.
...I am sceptical that it was the windows updates, and something about one of the reboots I suspect just cleaned a cache somewhere or allowed a clean LR3 load without some memory glitch.... I suspect I will never know....
computers - dont'cha just love 'em?
cheers
Rod

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