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Set a Printer as default from Printers collection

by Vincent Lozada (3 Submissions)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3^rd February 2021
Rating: (5 Votes)

Attempting to set the default printer to an object variable has no effect. For instance, given a system with more than one printer installed, the following code will not change the default printer: Set Printer = Printers(2). The expected behavior is that the document should print to the first non-default printer found in the printers collection. The actual behavior is that the document prints to the original default printer. Thus, a fix was proposed in MSDN Article ID Q167735. I modified this code from it original and wrapped in a class for the purpose of storing the original printer configuration during class initialization and reseting it back during termination if it was modified.

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