Photoshop CS4 does not recognize my printers

I've been looking throught the posts on this subject back to
April or May and don't see any real answers.
My Os is Windows 7 (64bit). All the printers are
networked. The printer i want to print to is an Epson
7800. PSD and modified photo all come up with the error
message stating that I need to install printer. Unmodified
photos don't have this problem. Also my laptop running
Windows 7 (32 bit) works fine. So a gather from what is am
seeing in my system and on the web, PS has a problem
dealing with networked printers while running Win7 (64Bit).
Any one have any new thoughts on the problem?
Thanks, Les

Hi,
Exit Photoshop.
Go into windows devices and printers and change the default printer to Microsoft XPS Document Writer.
Open Photoshop and when you get ready to print something and the print window options comes up change the printer in there to the network printer you want the job to print on.
See if that works.

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