<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dan,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>There are a couple ways to do this.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>The one we use most is to set a unique share name to each of the shared printers. Then in printer maintenance in filepro </span></div><div><span>1. define a user name (for a specific client workstation) </span></div><div><span>2. select the correct printer definition </span></div><div><span>3. under the 'destination file' enter win:<printer share name></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Alt nbr 3... under the 'destination file' enter <a href="file://%3cservername%3e/%3Cprinter">file://%3cservername%3e/%3Cprinter</a> share name></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Finally in the batch file for the user enter this command
'set pfprinter=<printer share name></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>This should work</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Rick Hane</span></div><div><span>Controller</span></div><div><span>Deluxe Stitching Company Inc</span></div><div><span>ISP Bindery and Stitching Products</span></div><div><span><a href="http://www.deluxestitcher.com/">http://www.deluxestitcher.com/</a></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dan McCabe <fp@mccabes.us><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:50 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Setting default printer in Windows<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
Good morning,<br><br>I have recently migrated to Windows from UNIX, so I'm still learning the<br>differences. The version is 5.07 running on Windows 7. The default<br>printer in filePro is set and works fine. But there are a couple of work<br>stations, I would like to change that default to a different printer. All<br>the printers are installed on the server and shared over the network.<br><br>I tried putting the PFPRINTER=\\server\printer in the Windows batch file,<br>no luck.<br><br>Testing, I added an environmental variable using the Windows "advanced<br>settings" on the server, When I added the PFPRINTER variable, that worked,<br>overriding the filePro default printer. When I tried to do the same thing<br>on a client computer using \\server\printer, as the value, it didn't<br>change. There were no errors when I loaded the menu, but it printed to the<br>filePro default rather than my local override.<br><br>Is there
a trick I'm missing here?<br><br>Thank you in advance.<br><br>Dan McCabe<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20130618/a57ebf31/attachment.html <br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>