Will try to clarify, it's NOT a satisfying solution:
(1) Looking at various logs (SYSTEM and others) via Console, "hang" events were regularly reported for the Turbotax process, followed sometime later then by my "forced quit" crash. WHAT exactly was hanging I can not report, just that the Turbotax process encountered a "hang" event.
(2) I started Turbotax YET again, tried to print state documents, and ended up in the same "stalled" spinning wheel state.
(3) I THEN started Console to see where we were hung up, but after just a few seconds the spinning wheel ended and the printer dialog box appeared -- no further insight into why with Console running whatever was stalled was allowed to proceed...but this is a "solution" I have actually experienced a few times in the past with "printer" related issues on software, not just Turbotax...
(4) This was all done first on the dummy system I had set up, which wasn't going to help much with actual returns. SO, I repeated that "vague" process on my original 10.13 system - printing state form results in spinning wheel, starting Console allows process to proceed and printer dialog appears.
(5) On both systems, I then proceeded to retest this WITHOUT Console, and on both systems the printer dialog appeared within seconds of "printing" a state-related form. This "fix" was then tested through full power off/power on restarts on both systems, and Turbotax continues to run correctly, by which I mean printing state forms results in a printer dialog box immediately.
All in all, not a particularly "actionable" problem solution, I understand, can only suggest others try it if in similar circumstances.
Appreciate all your interest and suggestions, hope for Turbotax this is a "one time" event, but since it happened on 2 completely independent systems of mine, going to hazard a guess that it will come up again...
