Default printer office 2003

[Moscow Mule]

Firstly I don't actually have a printer. Secondly the dongle doesn't work unless there is a printer configured as Generic/Text only configured on POS1.

Hence I think I'm banjaxed.

Get a PDF printer driver and set it to default.

Leave the existing printer attached for your dongle.

[ASB]

Get a PDF printer driver and set it to default.

Leave the existing printer attached for your dongle.

Tried all that. The problem is the dongle only works if I have a default printer which is connected to LPT1.

(Still if I will keep running 20 year old Dos cobol compilers.........)

[sleekit]

First post despite being a lurker for some time. Hello. I have no excuse and I offer shamefaced apologies all round.

Anyway - you can do this with macros, using AutoExec and AutoExit, which fire at startup and close of word.

In the default template (normal.dot) add a general declaration to hold the 'real' default printer. Then create AutoExec and AutoExit to handle setting the new default and swapping back to the original respectively. Will look something like this:

Public strStartupPrinter As String
Sub AutoExec()
    ' Save current default for later
    strStartupPrinter = Application.ActivePrinter
    ' Set new default printer
    Application.ActivePrinter = "CutePDF Writer"
End Sub

Sub AutoExit()
' Revert to previous
    Application.ActivePrinter = strStartupPrinter
End Sub

Worth pointing out activeprinter does seem to set the windows default printer, so if the application using the dongle is up and running at the same time as word then, um, this might actually be no use whatsoever!

Still, HTH

[xoggoth]

There you are, VBA in template, what did I tell you? I take all the credit, details are beneath executive sorts like me.

[wc2]

Just redirect the LPT port to a shared printer