Well, your advice re Console reminded me of too many previous Mac system episodes:
(1) Of course you are absolutely correct about the spinning ball, and looking thru various logs I could see that the Turbotax process kept getting hang events…no surprise there.
(2) I’ve experienced before that simply monitoring a problem with the Console running changes things enough that problems get solved…so off we went with the Console in the background.
(3) System hangs as previously, but then suddenly the printing handoff to the Mac gets going!
(4) Once that worked its way thru, now I can kill Console and all functions as it should!
(5) To make sure I wasn’t dreaming, repeated this whole exercise with Console on my “dummy” 10.14 setup, with the same result. Even did a power cycle/restart, and the solution seems to persist, so for now I’m good to go!
I do thank you for pointing me in the right direction - be surprised if this doesn't arise for some others as well.
