Export/Import Printer Preferences

At work we have a department that has about 40 printer objects installed.  These objects all have different printer preferences set.  When a new user logs into the PC those settings don’t carry over.  So you have to touch each printer and set the preferences again.  After doing some searching we found out where those settings are saved in the Registry.  So we exported the following keys and saved them in a .reg file.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevModePerUser
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevMode2

Now when a new user logs into the PC for the first time we just have to run the reg file for them and they are good to go.

Source:  www.experts-exchange.com

 


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