Presentation Director Missing Default Printer Option

[dem107]

I am using Presentation Director 2.54. I used to be able to specify the default printer for each profile, but that option seems missing now. It might have disappeared when I upgraded to the latest version, but I'm not sure.

Do others have this problem?

[GomJabbar]

Are you sure you mean Presentation Director?

Access Connections has that feature. Go to Edit Profile, and on the Additional Settings tab, there is a Set default printer checkbox with a drop down menu to the right for choosing the printer with an internet or LAN connection profile.

[dem107]

You're right! It was in Access Connection, not Presentation Director.

I did figure out a way to make it happen in Presentation Director.
For each Presentation Director scheme:
1. Open notepad and put a single line
cscript c:\windows\system32\prnmngr.vbs -t -p "XYZ"
where you replace XYZ with the name of the printer you want to be the default in this scheme.
2. Save the file somewhere like C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\ABC.bat where you replace ABC with the scheme name in Presentation Director.
3. Close notepad
4. Open Presentation Director, edit the ABC scheme.
5. Chose the "Additional" tab.
6. Check "Automatically Open a selected file"
7. Put C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\ABC.bat or whatever you called it step 2 into the "Chose File" box.
8. Click "OK"
9. Repeat for all Presentation director schemes.

This will automatically set the default printer based on your active Presentation Director scheme.

Or you can use Access Connection.