Printing freezes many applications

Hi All,
I have a Windows 7 laptop that sporadically experiences program hangups when printing to any printer. It's not just one program, it happens in Office 2013, Acrobat XI, even the Windows photo printer. But it doesn't hang "low-level" apps like notepad.
It will occur when printing to any of the various printers on the network (some Canon copiers, and several HP LaserJet colors), and even printing to the Adobe PDF printer and a usb-attached HP laser printer. Rebooting solves the problem for a few days, and
printing works fine, then it resurfaces and I cannot print until another reboot. It seems to be a problem with the Windows printing subsystem rather than any specific application or print driver. I've run an system file check which came back clean. I've never
seen anything like this and I'm pretty much stumped.
Anybody have an idea?
Thanks.

Thanks for your reply. No there are no related events in the system or application logs other than the "Application Hang" event identifying the program which I had to close forcibly. Unlinke "App Crash", this event doesn't include any helpful clues or point
to problem DLLs or anything. I've thought about removing all print drivers and starting over, but that doesn't seem like a strong lead since it occurs with various printers and virtual printers like print-to-PDF or XPS.
I'll give it a try though. Thanks again.

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