

What is likely happening is that Acrobat calls the printer driver for your printer and the printer calls various system functions where the crash occurs. They are application programs that do not run in kernal mode that could cause such BSOD (Blue Screens of Death) system crashes.

There is absolutely nothing in any Adobe software including the various flavours of Acrobat and Reader that can directly “crash” Windows. DC will print to my other printers just not by big plotter. I updated Windosw 10 today with KB4567512 ( Microsoft indicates that this would resolve the issue with the KB4560960 update) but again no improvement. I have completely uninstalled Adobe DC and reinstalled, along with updating and repair of DC but have not found a solution. Every time I attempt to print I get a Windows system crash with a kernal exception ( blue screen of death).

Subsequently I can now print to the HP Designjet from other programs but not Adobe DC. The alleged work around was to uninstall the Microsoft update. I also tested the printer on a different computer and replace the USB cable all in an attempt to correct the issue. While attempting to determine the problem I deleted Acrobat DC as well as the HP drivers and reinstalled them several times. Upon research I found that an recent Microsoft update (KB4560960) was the culprit. Running a test page produced an simple print error message as well as from Adobe DC. Microsoft (10 64 bit) recently fielded an update that disabled my HP designjet 500 from printing.
