Photoshop won't print offending command

photshop cs5.1 won't print. when printing 8.5 x 11 it prints a 12 x 18 sheet all white except type which says offending command

twenty_one wrote:
In any case, a quick and dirty trick for files that won't print, is often to copy/paste it into a new file. This throws out all metadata from the old file, bringing only the pure pixel data over.
That's interesting Dag. I sometimes use that trick to get round weird document glitches, but didn't know why it fixed things.

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