System Preferences Freezes When Attempting to Add New Printer

Running into an issue on a Mac Pro here. It crashed earlier today, and when I try to go into Print & Fax in control panels, it says "Loading" and then just pin wheels. There were several documents waiting to print at the time of the crash, but I can't get into the print cue now due to this. Is there a preference that could be corrupted?
Thanks!
R~

Try /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.PrintCenter.plist, move it to your desktop and restart.
-mj

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