Re: Shared printer not picking up default properties from print server

Are you setting the defaults from the Advanced Tab of printer properties.
The General tab is a per user setting for the local machine.

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<mcbill20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all. I put together a Windows XP box to replace our aging NT 4.0
> print server. After setting up a couple of test printers on the XP
> box, I set them up as shared and set default properties. The two
> defaults I changed are "Print on both sides" and "Print in grayscale".
> On the print server itself, these new defaults are saved. However,
> when I add this network printer to another XP workstation, the
> defaults come up with these two items not checked.
>
> Both the print server and the XP workstations have all the latest
> patches. The printer is an HP Color Laserjet 5550-DTN and is connected
> via TCP. Is there a way to set a default on the shared printer so that
> when users connect to this printer those same defaults are inherited?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>