<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Very good information regarding 10.6.x per printer presets from the Apple Printing Mailing list.</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div marginleft="10" marginright="10" margintop="10" marginbottom="10" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Mike's comment below is correct with the following exception:</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The only presets that are tracked per printer are the "per printer" </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">presets. By default, new presets are saved per printer but a user can </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">choose to save any preset as a preset for all printers, in which case </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">the old file location is used. Both "global" and per-printer presets </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">can be present in the presets menu in the print dialog for a given </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">printer. Any per-printer presets for the current printer are presented </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">in the presets menu first, followed by a separator, followed by the </font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">list of presets that apply to all printers.</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">David</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">> On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Bennett Hart wrote:</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>> I used to be able to select printing presets by running this shell </font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>> script:</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>></font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>></font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>> do shell script "defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>> com.apple.print.lastPresetPref '" & "Elite 21 Letterhead" & "'"</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>></font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">>> However, this does not work since I update to 10.6.</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">></font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">> Presets are now also tracked by printer, so if you have a printer </font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">> called "My Printer" you'd need to use:</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">></font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">> do shell script "defaults write </font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">> com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.My_Printer</font></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208); "><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">> com.apple.print.lastPresetPref '" & "Elite 21 Letterhead" & "'"</font></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>