[printersetup-discussion] Fwd: Printing preset 10.6

henri reply to this message via the mailing list
Fri Sep 25 11:03:20 NZST 2009


Very good information regarding 10.6.x per printer presets from the  
Apple Printing Mailing list.

> Mike's comment below is correct with the following exception:
> The only presets that are tracked per printer are the "per printer"
> presets. By default, new presets are saved per printer but a user can
> choose to save any preset as a preset for all printers, in which case
> the old file location is used. Both "global" and per-printer presets
> can be present in the presets menu in the print dialog for a given
> printer. Any per-printer presets for the current printer are presented
> in the presets menu first, followed by a separator, followed by the
> list of presets that apply to all printers.
> David
>
> > On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Bennett Hart wrote:
> >> I used to be able to select printing presets by running this shell
> >> script:
> >>
> >>
> >> do shell script "defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets
> >> com.apple.print.lastPresetPref '" & "Elite 21 Letterhead" & "'"
> >>
> >> However, this does not work since I update to 10.6.
> >
> > Presets are now also tracked by printer, so if you have a printer
> > called "My Printer" you'd need to use:
> >
> >    do shell script "defaults write
> > com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.My_Printer
> > com.apple.print.lastPresetPref '" & "Elite 21 Letterhead" & "'"

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