Just noticed a Win10 setting: "Let Windows manage my default printer"

[mikeymikec]

The explanatory text is "When turned on, the default printer is the last-used printer". (default is on)

The situation whereby some apps these days ignore the default printer setting (such as Chrome, FF and TB) and instead default to whichever printer that app used last - doesn't this Windows setting and that feature turn quick-fire printing into a bit of a lottery? Whatever the app considers to be the last-used printer is not necessarily the same one that Windows considers it to be.

I hope this setting is per-user because I can see it causing havoc in a setting with multiple printers (e.g. in a business where there might be a multitude of printers across floors, including label printers and other unusual types).

This setting can be found in the new Settings UI, under 'devices', then 'printers and scanners'.

 

[Puffnstuff]

If it presents the user with a problem then you can just turn it off and select your own default printer.

 

[PliotronX]

Thanks guys! I had no idea this setting was there and quick print in Visio had selected my label maker when I needed to print a topology. This spawned some jokes at work but quite an uneeded (for me at least) feature.

 

[nerp]

That is actually kind of cool in a random techno art sort of way. Another Windows 10 delight.