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#OUTLOOK HOW TO CHANGE DEFAULT PRINTER DRIVER#

This can be an alternative to adding your printer twice as described below. Some printers may also offer the option to define multiple “Printing Templates” or “Printing Shortcuts” which allows you to configure different printing settings for each template which you can select when printing.

#OUTLOOK HOW TO CHANGE DEFAULT PRINTER DRIVER#

Note: The “Printing preferences” dialog is often heavily customized by the printer driver supplied by the printer manufacturer to control the options specific to your printer. Now right click on your printer and choose “Printing preferences” and look for the color and quality settings.Ĭolor printing options for my HP printer.

From the search results select: Devices and Printers.

Open the Start Screen and type: printer.

You’ll find an overview of your installed printers in the following location: Change default Printer Settings via Control Panel You can then simply select this printer without needing to make the changes each time you print from Outlook. However, you can make these changes the default for your printer by setting them in Control Panel.Īnother way to go would be to add your printer twice each with different defaults. No, as these settings are specific for your printer, you cannot control them via Outlook.

Is there any way to make this the default when printing from Outlook? These are quite some clicks each time I need to print and I actually sometimes forget to set it. To prevent wasting precious ink, I always change my printing settings to use black ink only (greyscale), use the economy/draft mode of my printer and sometimes even set it to print double-sided. However, on occasion, I also need to print out some other things which are usually emails. I've got a printer with relatively expensive ink cartridges as I've mainly bought it for printing photos.