Comments on: Thunderbird ignores Windows’ default printer setting

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:36:46 +0000

Works like a charm! Your description really hit it on the head – easy. Thank goodness was able to find your posting, for which am grateful. Just wish Mozilla would read this and do something.

By: Frank Bollinger

Frank Bollinger — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:11:39 +0000

My thanks also. The comment about print.print occurring more than once was key for me. After resetting two occurrences, my computer is now using my older Windows default printer (Which I want).

I’m curious – The problem just started a couple days ago, after working “properly” for two months after I installed a new printer (Meaning it was successfully using my old printer for two months, then suddenly switched to the new printer unexpectedly). My Thunderbird version is currently 10.0.2. I’m not sure when it last updated.

By: OmegaOmega

OmegaOmega — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:57:19 +0000

Thanks Wick. Your post combined with the addendum added by MrArtist (September 26, 2011 at 3:05 am) did the trick for me.

I notice that on re-opening the config window after these settings were reset to default, these “Preference Names” seem to have disappeared from the list (TBird 10.0).

Cheers,
Randy

By: VW

VW — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:46:54 +0000

Thank you so much! Before I came here I was looking around in the config file print settings for something like “default”. I would NEVER have thought of right-clicking and then trying reset. Awesome!

By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:04:06 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

By: badgez66

badgez66 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:29:56 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you…. to all those who un-selfishly give so much to the internet community …

another problem solved!

By: Dave H

Dave H — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:58:31 +0000

worked a treat – thanks!

By: Wick

Wick — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:42:36 +0000

Hmm, okay, try filtering for just “print_printer” & reset that instead.

I searched around a bit & it seems like Thunderbird may have done away with the “print.print_printer” setting, so you might not see it if you installed a recent version rather than upgrading. That’s just my unscientific guess what’s going on, since it seems like you’re not alone.

I still see “print.print_printer” & lots of related settings in my copy (Thunderbird 7.01 under Windows 7 64-bit), but I’ve been upgrading versions since Thunderbird 3.1.7 (December 2010).

By: Hazen

Hazen — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:35:43 +0000

I have same problem. TB wants to use Microsoft XPS Document Writer instead of Canon MX860. Canon is wireless network printer. TB sees it and if I change it will print. Following the advice in this thread is not working for me. Running Windows 7 x86, and there is no “print.print_printer”setting. If I put that in the filter box there are no hits. There are several entries for printer_Microsoft_XPS_Document_Writer, but none of them suggest it controls default. Do I need to reset all of them? Where is the print_print_printer? I’m obviously missing something.

By: Wick

Wick — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:38:03 +0000

Hi Klaus, I’d check again & just make sure you follow the instructions carefully. Thunderbird didn’t change the setting, & Windows version makes no difference. (Windows 7 is what I’m using, BTW). Let me know more information if I’m missing something & I’ll try to help out.