Jim Patterson wrote:
Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Jim,
Jim Patterson wrote:
I have been running into a problem with documents not going to the
default printer. In cups I have the default printer set to PrinterA,
but whenever I start to print it prints to PrinterB. I check in
printer setup and it indicates that the default printer is PrinterB.
If I reset it here and print then it will print to PrinterA, but the
next document I open then it's back to printing to PrinterB.
Could it be the following:
The printer name is kept in the template.
So if you change your default template to link to printerA, that will
work for new docs.
Greetings,
Cor
This didn't appear to work for documents which I get from somewhere else.
No, it won't, by design.
Some applications default to printing with whatever your default system
printer happens to be at the moment. Others embed information on the
last printer used into a document. It is not only OOo that does this ...
Quark Express is one application that I can think of that has always
done this.
Sometimes when a document remembers a printer that behavior is just what
I want. At other times it is annoying. But the same is true for
applications where printer information is not saved, and I forget next
day that on the previous day I've set my default printer away from its
normal setting for a special job, and perhaps set its internal settings
oddly as well, and I neglect to look at the printer setting display in
the printing dialog box. My 50 page document has been printed as 50
separate graphic tiff files on the Xerox Docuprint server.
A reasonable enhancement might be a check box in the printer dialog box
saying "Use system default printer" (which would be sticky in a
document), as well as a global override among the OOo options to force
use of the default printer", regardless of document preferences, except
when the user manually changes it when actually printing.
Jallan
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