Word 2013 forgets printer settings

Not a solution but a work-around I find useful (Win 7, Microsoft Office Pro 2013) is to set up multiple instances of the same printer with different names and different properties (Eg: auto color/B&W, duplex vs. no duplex). It still requires selecting the correct printer for the document each time it is opened, but it's better than having to reset each characteristic every time.

@Stefan Blom

As long as you are still in the same Word session, I would expect printer settings to be preserved. In other words, for Word to revert to the default printer (and its default settings), you have to exit and restart Word. Closing a single document won't suffice.

Just to insure my reply about XP & word 2003 (not a VM) and 7 & Word 2013 are clear . .  I am closing and restarting MS-Word.   As for trying different printers, yes I've done this with different printers and printer drivers.

As long as you are still in the same Word session, I would expect printer settings to be preserved. In other words, for Word to revert to the default printer (and its default settings), you have to exit and restart Word. Closing a single document won't suffice.

Others have reported that Word 2013 behaves differently from older versions with regards to printer settings. I haven't seen this myself.

Have you tried a different printer?

Have you tried restarting Word? Does that clear the settings?

Also, you should verify that the default settings of the printer has not changed (in Control Panel).

This is ridiculous - I am searching for an answer to the opposite problem. My version of 2013 is remembering settings permanently. I have to change everything ( number of copies double sided, whole doc or selection of pages etc) each time which is very annoying as I print many different things in many different ways. If I ask for 13 copies one day - it will still print 13 copies the next if I forget to change it - as I often do as I am not used to this.  

Ideally I want a 10 minute memory.