

Whenever you change printer, you should always check the settings from Page Setup. If you change the printer, Word will try to match the settings from the old to the new printer - but that is rarely successful. Word also stores the printer settings with the document, so if you change them they will be saved.

When you start a new document in Word, it uses the settings in the curently selected printer as the settings for the document. If you are printing via a server, you need to make these changes on the server, and they should then be set on the clients automatically.Ī couple of provisos, about Word. Sometimes the setting from Printing Defaults propagates to Printing Properties, sometimes it doesn't, and I do not know why. Check the tray/paper settings here and set them if necessary.

Then click the General tab and the Printing Preferences button. In the next window, select the tray and/or paper type and click OK. Click the Advanced tab and then the Printing Defaults button. Right-click the printer and select Properties (Printer Properties in Win7). You can set the driver to default to tray 3 (or to plain paper) - but you need to do it in 2 places, in the correct order.
