Can a template hold a specific printer tray source setting?

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I googled some of my terms and I gleaned that it is not possible to have a
permanent printer setting in a document template. Is this true?

My specific desire would be to have a default setting for my stationery
which allows all documents meant to be printed on my stationery feed through
manual feed while all other documents would feed automatically through the
lower tray (my printer is a HPLJ5N). It seems, though, that when I change a
printer setting, all documents, regardless of template are changed to the
last set printer, which becomes time and paper consuming as I make the
adjustments.

Any help would be appreciated, although I'm very not proficient at major
computer languages...

TIA
 
You can set a specific tray, but not a specific printer.

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That sounds like what I'm looking for. I'd like to have a default printer
tray for my stationery. If I can set that in my template I'd be a
(temporarily, I'm sure) happy camper.

Could you tell me or direct me, please.

TIA.
 
This setting is on the Paper or Paper Source tab of Page Setup.

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thanks. looked like it worked.



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
This setting is on the Paper or Paper Source tab of Page Setup.

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Are you wanting to default to a particular printer too? If not, no nee
to read on!

Of course, it depends on the number of users, extent of requiremen
etc. but, if you do fancy trying a little bit of VBA then you coul
define a custom property in the template which holds the name of th
printer. You could then write code to select the printer named in tha
document property.

Assuming the document property is called 'PrinterName' then I thin
something along the lines of this would work:

Sub Select_Printer
Dim strPRINTERNAME as string

strPRINTERNAME
ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties("PrinterName")
ActivePrinter = strPRINTERNAME

End Sub

Depending upon your level of knowledge (and I am not a programmer) yo
could extend this to do all sorts of things and be much mor
sophisticated but, even as it is, it may overcome an annoyance fo
you.

All the best
Debbi
 
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