Printing causes crash since HP update

Question

Since the HP update last week I cannot print under Mountain Lion without the application (Mail, Safari) crashing.
If I create a clean profiule I can print.
I have reset the printing system, deleted and reconfigured the printer and reinstalled the HP drivers from the Apple support site.
The error is : Safari (or mail) quit unexpectedly while using the HPPrintSettings plug-in
Process:         Safari [5165]
Path:            /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier:      com.apple.Safari
Version:         6.0 (8536.25)
Build Info:      WebBrowser-7536025000000000~2
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [175]
User ID:         501
PlugIn Path:       /Library/Printers/hp/PDEs/hpPostScriptPDE.plugin/Contents/PlugIns/HPPrintSettin gs.bundle/Contents/MacOS/HPPrintSettings
PlugIn Identifier: com.hp.print.psdriver.HPPrintSettings
PlugIn Version:    19.1.0 (19.1.0b429)
Date/Time:       2012-08-13 12:03:36.926 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8 (12A269)
Report Version:  10
Interval Since Last Report:          50879 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           14
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  209692 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      9038F83D-30D8-4B50-B2DF-C42E3D010298
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: respondsToSelector:
Performing @selector(doPrint:) from sender NSButton 0x7fe2ebc6f830

Answer 1

This is the same crash seen in several other threads and the "More Like This" sidebar: remove /Library/Printers/hp/PDEs/hpPostScriptPDE.plugin.