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Revert to standard printing presets without printing System
Often, a user may set up a preset via the Print dialog box, for example, to use when printing a photo with high quality settings. If the user forgets to reset the preset to defaults, the OS does not do this for him. One way to reset this, of course, is to go to File » Print, select the default preset, and then print the document. This wastes ink, paper, and time. But if one selects the default and then clicks Cancel, the previously-selected preset will still be in effect.

The workaround is to go to File » Print, select the default preset, but then click Preview instead of Print. Once the Preview window is open, simply click Cancel; the default preset is now selected for subsequent print jobs.
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Revert to standard printing presets without printing
Authored by: g3ski on May 07, '07 08:08:27AM

Great tip. I was printing a pdf to get it to stick. This is even faster and easier.

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Revert to standard printing presets without printing
Authored by: Tops20 on May 07, '07 04:44:35PM

In 10.4 (Tiger), the Print & Fax panel of System Preferences has an option to set the default printer. The default default looks like "Last Printer Used." Change this to the actual printer you'd like to default to and then any change you make for a particular print job will only last for that one job.



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