Everything freezes when I try to print

All of the sudden, my Epson Artisan 1430 won't print at all. I first tried printing something from Firefox, the whole browser froze. Tried Chrome, no luck. Downloaded the image to my desktop and tried printing from Preview, it also froze. Tried opening it in Acrobat, that froze too. Finally, I tried reinstalling the printer drivers, and the installation quits halfway through! As anyone ever encountered this before? I'm not sure if it's a problem with the printer or my computer.