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I beg to differ. The ops system has the responsibility of going back to a
known state after an application is closed. Things get complicated when a
non ops system driver is involved, but that does not relieve the
responsibility. If the ops system can do nothing more than call the printer
driver with some sort of return to default, it should do so. The alternative
would be to return to the "dark ages", and have the application totally
control the printer. Admittedly, the windows only printers and supporting
software pose a more complex problem than the older text and graphics
printers.
>Printer default settings are set under Printers and Faxes. Any
>setting changes made with the application are not permanent except
>in some poorly programmed applications
"Earl F. Parrish" <efparri@nowhere.world> wrote in message
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> "scott@boeing" <scott@boeing@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:ED6CEA3D-2AE9-4A73-9B8C-DFA9CDED5C1D@microsoft.com...
> >I must use wordpad in windows xp to print out several different
> >documents
> > opened separately and one at a time every day. Each time I open
> > the the text
> > file I have to reset the prinitng options "landscape" "scale"
> > etc...
> >
> > Is there anyway to set wordpad to print using default settings for
> > scale and
> > orientation?
>
> Printer default settings are set under Printers and Faxes. Any
> setting changes made with the application are not permanent except
> in some poorly programmed applications.
>
> --
> Earl F. Parrish
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