Change Printer for All Documents?

[Art Frank]

Is this the correct behavior that I'm observing for Office applications?

My default printer is A. I open up a couple of Word documents and decide to
print one of them to printer B. Then, when I go to quick print the other one
it prints out to printer B. I exit Word, re-open the documents, and when I
quick print either they go to printer A. To my eyes, changing the printer
for one document changes the printer for all documents, at least until Word
is closed.

Is there a way to configure Office so that changing the printer on one
document DOESN'T change it for any others?

 

[DL]

If when you origonally saved a doc, it was configured to print to Printer B,
when you reopen that doc it will quick print tp printer B

 

[DanielWalters6]

It's normal proceedure.

Microsoft office believe that whilst you're in that "session" you want to
send everything to the same printer.

To quickly find out which printer "quickprint" will send it to, just hover
your mouse over the printer icon, and it will show you the name of the
printer that pressing it will proint to. This may save you accidentally
sending it to a black and white printer when you're trying to print to a
colour one, or visa/versa.

 

[Bob I]

Humm, doesn't work that way here, the default printer is what is used,
BUT, the tray assignments are what is saved. That causes no end of
problems when novices set the tray instead of using auto-select.

 

[DanielWalters6]

Know what you mean

 

[DL]

Perhaps I was thinking of Access reports, which I use all the time
My Word docs do indeed print from the specific tray that they were set to
print from