

Is that right? I use application.printcommunications = false in my excel VBA code so wonder if that is causing an issue when I set printcommunications back to true. If I right click and end the "Print driver host for applications" process manually Excel comes back pretty quickly & also shows all the Excel files that are open: Task manager: after force stopping Print Driver Host Processįrom what I understand Printer driver host for applications is meant to communicate 64 OS printers with the 32 bit office. Task manager: Excel and Print driver host for application

Even if I have multiple Excel files open it will just show these two lines under Microsoft Excel (32 bit):

I never get the "has stopped working" error and eventually (meaning several minutes) Excel will come back. When I use a macro-enabled Excel files that has some page setup and other formatting code the task manager shows Microsoft Excel (32 bit) and "Print driver host for applications" open and Excel tends to lock up or say not responding.
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I tested this on multiple Windows 10 computers running the latest version of Excel (365 subscription) with both Bluebeam PDF and Microsoft XPS Document writer set as the default printer and get the same result. Michaelf Asks: What is "Print driver host for applications" and why does it slow down my Excel macros?
