By selecting this as the
default printer for both computers, either can print to it at any time.
There is no standard Windows menu and no ability to select among printers from within the program; users must set the desired printer as the
default printer in Windows.
To get to the printer driver, click on Start, Settings, Printers and then right click on your
default printer icon.
Location profiles also include
default printer settings, dialing settings (including area code, calling card, prefixes, and dial-tone detection), as well as settings for popular applications such as cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, WinFax, Internet Explorer, and Netscape.
This one is very important to catch as it can cascade through everything else installed on your system if you decide to do anything other than use the
default printer under its default conditions.
When users elect to "print" selected information to a file, the file created is not an ASCII file, unless the
default printer is a generic ASCII printer.
One change you'll want to pay attention to is that Windows will now set your
default printer to the printer most-recently used.
Turning on Use same options next time report is run on the Output page of the Reports Explorer now saves the selected printer if it isn't the
default printer. This allows you to always print the report to the same printer, such as sending mailing labels to a label printer.
An action that sends the monthly report to the
default printer.