Yes, this happened to me yesterday.  All the computers on my network did an update on Sunday morning.  Everyone that was using that printer with the PCL driver on Monday would get crash messages when they opened a word file (when the PCL driver was the default).  They would also get a crash message if they chose the PCL print driver from the list.  If you use the PS driver it works fine.  So far I have not called the "printer support" at Dell about the issue, I have just switched to the PS driver instead.

They should be on the CD with the PCL, or you can download them from the Dell site.

http://ftp.us.dell.com/printer/Dell_AAP_Win2KXP_Drivers_en.exe

Where do I find the PS drivers? Are they on the CD? (am not in office today to check it) Only the PCL ones are online

Unfortunately this does not work for the Dell LaserPrinter 1700. When you use the PS driver you can no longer print to the printer at all. When you use the PCL driver only the local pc can use the printer. All other pcs trying to print to this printer get error messages and in general flip out. Any other suggestions??

I spoke with Dell Customer Service and the only fix they had as of Friday was to roll back the update on all pcs that are accessing that printer. Not a great fix, but the Dell 1700 printer is working fine now on all networked computers. He also said to keep checking their website for the patch.

The name of the program I uninstalled was:

 

Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4