Paint Shop Pro support - Changing Printer

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Changing Printer

Alan Bristow

2004-09-27, 7:18 am

This should be easy but I can't seem to figure out how to do it!
I've just upgraded my printer to an EPSON Stylus Photo R300 from my old
Stylus 600 but, although the printer works fine and is set as my only
(default) printer, PSP 8 always give me the error, "There is not a default
printer set up." I've looked everywhere for the setting but I can't find it!
Anybody? TIA, Alan.

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Kris Zaklika

2004-09-27, 12:14 pm

Alan Bristow wrote:
>
> This should be easy but I can't seem to figure out how to do it!
> I've just upgraded my printer to an EPSON Stylus Photo R300 from my old
> Stylus 600 but, although the printer works fine and is set as my only
> (default) printer, PSP 8 always give me the error, "There is not a default
> printer set up." I've looked everywhere for the setting but I can't find it!

It's not so hard to find. File > Print and press the Printer
button to choose the printer. Or, do File > Print Layout and
then File > Print Setup and the Printer button to choose the
printer. PSP maintains it's own default printer to make it
easier for you to print graphics on one printer and text on
on another (the Windows default printer).

> Anybody? TIA, Alan.
>
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All Things Mopar

2004-09-27, 12:14 pm

Kris Zaklika commented courteously ...

> It's not so hard to find. File > Print and press the
> Printer button to choose the printer. Or, do File > Print
> Layout and then File > Print Setup and the Printer button
> to choose the printer. PSP maintains it's own default
> printer to make it easier for you to print graphics on one
> printer and text on on another (the Windows default
> printer).

Kris, I thought Jasc changed PSP to use the Windows Default
Printer and not maintain its own "default" somewhere after
the release of 8.0.

I have both the Win XP and HP drivers installed for my 1220C.
PSP 8.10 and PSP 9 do remember the last printer I used to
print within a given work session, but the next time I close
PSP (8 and 9) and re-launch, PSP's print engine reverts to my
HP driver, which is set to "default" in XP.

-- Jerry

Alan Bristow

2004-09-27, 7:15 pm

That was what I was trying but that's also when I got the error message
trying both those methods!
Anyway, I decided to uninstall and then reinstall PSP8 and it picked up my
new printer straight away so I'm ok now thanks.

"All Things Mopar" <none@none.xxx> wrote in message
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> Kris Zaklika commented courteously ...
>
>
> Kris, I thought Jasc changed PSP to use the Windows Default
> Printer and not maintain its own "default" somewhere after
> the release of 8.0.
>
> I have both the Win XP and HP drivers installed for my 1220C.
> PSP 8.10 and PSP 9 do remember the last printer I used to
> print within a given work session, but the next time I close
> PSP (8 and 9) and re-launch, PSP's print engine reverts to my
> HP driver, which is set to "default" in XP.
>
> -- Jerry

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All Things Mopar

2004-09-27, 7:15 pm

Alan Bristow commented courteously ...

> That was what I was trying but that's also when I got the
> error message trying both those methods!
> Anyway, I decided to uninstall and then reinstall PSP8 and
> it picked up my new printer straight away so I'm ok now
> thanks.

Glad its working for you now! I had a real PITA with printer
crashes in the early PSP 8 days (got fixed in 8.10). I tried
tricking it by creating a dummy default printer but it still
crashed.

Cheers!

-- Jerry