This is a little bit off the normal stuff I post (or at least the stuff I’ve been posting) but I wanted to share this great trick with all of you currently using Windows 7 – utilizing multiple default printers.
I use a laptop that moves between several different networks – my home network, our offices in Las Colinas, Redmond, Austin, and Houston, as well as my parent’s house and the local School where my kids attend. In each of those networks, there is at least one, usually several different printers. Before Windows 7, printing a document this way was always a 2-step process – I’d either have to manually select a specific printer when it came time to print something, or go into the printer settings and choose a new Default Printer before pressing the “Print” button. This was a real pain, and I often forgot to reset the printer when I moved on to the next place, causing the printing to not work as expected.
Along comes Windows 7 and this Multiple Default Printers feature – it’s really, really easy to set up:
And that’s it! Easy, right? If you get stuck, here’s a video I found that walks you step-by-step through the process:
Hey – if you’re not using Windows 7 – what are you waiting for? Go out and get it TODAY!
Hi Chris,
I have a software package that prints documents and labels. I would like to be able to set the label printing to always print from my label printer. At the moment it prints from the default printer. It is obviously possible to choose the printer from the list, but as i often forget to do so it can be a headache. I downloaded Automatic Print Switcher, but that only allows to default for each application, not 2 defaults in one app.
Thanks
Rod
Did you ever get an answer to your question. I have a similar issue where I want to be able to direct output to one of two printers right from the menu ribbon.