David E. Ross wrote:
On 12/28/12 9:28 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
OK, here's something that does work, though I'm not sure of any
unintended consequences:
In about:config, find the pref print printer, right-click it, and
choose "reset." It becomes blank. Close about:config.
Henceforth, whenever you execute a print command, the default
printer is selected. You can select another printer, but the next
time you execute a print command, the default is selected again.
Just what the OP wanted.
Any reason not to do this?
I'd also like to know how to restore the default behavior.
Going to about:config, I reset print printer. I then went to a Web
page, selected print, and selected a non-default printer (printing to
a PDF file). I then went to print a different Web page, but the
previously selected non-default printer was still selected. Thus,
what you suggested does not work. What I wrote previously regarding
about:config is true.
I disabled the setting of print printer in my user.js file,
terminated SeaMonkey, and then relaunched SeaMonkey. The previously
selected non-default printer was still selected.
I re-enabled the setting of print printer in my user.js file,
terminated SeaMonkey, and then relaunched SeaMonkey. My Windows
default printer was selected. This proves my method works.
OK, I don't have a user.js, so your experience may be different from
mine for that reason. At the moment, my print printer setting is "user
set" to a printer that happens to be my system default ("HP LaserJet
2200 Series PCL 6").
I "printed" your message to the Adobe PDF driver, selecting it manually
from the print dialog. The next time I hit CTRL-P, SM still presented
the LaserJet as the selection, it forgot that the last printer used was
the Adobe PDF driver.
When I manually changed the value of print_printer in about:config to
"Adobe PDF," that selection stuck, and SM kept presenting that as the
default printer even though I selected other printers in the print
dialog for intervening jobs.
When I manually changed the value of print_printer back to "HP LaserJet
2200 Series PCL 6," it kept presenting that as the default printer even
though I selected other printers in the print dialog for intervening jobs.
So I'd like to know how to revert to the default behavior where SM
remembers the last printer used instead of always presenting the stuck
value.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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