Word 2013 forgets printer settings

Please don't SHOUT. If this was working before, it must have been that there was a macro in the document or document template that printed the document using those specific printer settings. I assure you that it has never been possible to set printer Properties for a specific document in Word. This is possible in Publisher, which, incidentally, is probably a better application for creating brochures.

Hello,

I haven't tried it in word yet, however in excel 2013 I have to manually set the printer settings every time to black ink only.  I have my default printer set to "black ink only" and it appears that excel decides that it is going to use the "original" default printer settings anyway.  Changes to the printer settings in excel are not saved.

Color ink is expensive so the rule is don't use color ink unless absolutely required.  In previous versions of office this could be set on the person's computer by changing the "printer preferences" for the printer in question.  Now that no longer works.

Is there a fix or not?

Thank you.

Since your question is about Excel, you should ask in an Excel forum. Go to http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/excel?sort=lastreplydate&dir=desc&tab=Threads.

Interesting.

However it turns out that if you save your document after making changes to the printer settings before printing, it will actually save the settings.  I discovered this by accident while experimenting with any possible solution I could come up with.

So the solution is, save after making changes to the printer settings.

Thanks.

hi,

   I'm having this issue with word 2013. this is an application issue and not a printer driver. click file > print select the printer then printer properties and at the bottom of the properties window it says Microsoft Word Defaults you have to deselect this and choose 'printer defaults', My question is How do you choose the printer defaults over Microsoft Word Defaults? and make this a default setting?

Cheers