How to change default printer?

"Martin Skaggs" <wmskaggs@insightbb.com> apparently said:

>I have 2 printers, one general purpose, the other for photos only. Is there
>a way I can make Photoshop choose my photo printer ( which is not my Windows
>default printer).whenever I want to print from the program?

One way is to have the default printer automatically change
when you run Photoshop. To do that, just create a batch file
with two lines; place it in the Photoshop directory to
keep things sanitary. Here's the batch:
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rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "HP Deskjet 970Cxi"
Photoshp.exe

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Of course, you'll change "HP Deskjet 970Cxi" to match the
name of the printer you want Photoshop to use.
Do leave the quotation marks in there.

Then just change the shortcut that launches Photoshop
to run your batch file instead.

You'll probably want to create another batch to run after
you're done with PS, to change back to the normal
default printer.
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rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "HP Laserjet 4"

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Hmm. There must be a way to make a batch file run
automatically when PS exits....

Dean Van Praotl wrote:

>
> One way is to have the default printer automatically change
> when you run Photoshop. To do that, just create a batch file
> with two lines; place it in the Photoshop directory to
> keep things sanitary. Here's the batch:
> ======================================
>
> rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "HP Deskjet 970Cxi"
> Photoshp.exe
>
> ======================================
> Of course, you'll change "HP Deskjet 970Cxi" to match the
> name of the printer you want Photoshop to use.
> Do leave the quotation marks in there.
>
> Then just change the shortcut that launches Photoshop
> to run your batch file instead.
>
> You'll probably want to create another batch to run after
> you're done with PS, to change back to the normal
> default printer.
> ======================================
>
> rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "HP Laserjet 4"
>
> ======================================
>
> Hmm. There must be a way to make a batch file run
> automatically when PS exits....

That sounds neat, but how can you trigger it from within the program
when you want to print? I commonly open up Photoshop by doube-clicking
the file I want to work on, unless PS is already open from opening
another file.

Would it really save time?
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edjh <edjhann@hotmail.com> apparently said:

>That sounds neat, but how can you trigger it from within the program
>when you want to print? I commonly open up Photoshop by doube-clicking
>the file I want to work on, unless PS is already open from opening
>another file.

Probably not without hacking PS. I haven't found anything in the
menus that looks like they expect users to do anything outside the
usual print dialog, where you can select the printer at print time.