Automator in Lion not working as before in 10.6/10.5

Question

Hai!
Asking Google it seems I am the only having problems with Automator post upgrade from 10.6.8 to 10.7.1.
I have a workflow used as a folder action that should print PDFs downloaded to the downloads folder and with a certain file naming scheme to a Dymo label printer. It worked flawlessly during 10.5 and 10.6. Now in 10.7 it is printed to the default printer of Lion (either the one set as default or the one used last, depending on preferences settings).
Looking at the "Print Finder Items.action" I am unable to select the printer to print to anymore. So now what?
The other issue I am having is that a Automator Workflow saved as an App shows different results when run standalone or in Automator itself:
A worklow managing certain informtion from my address book shows well results, while run in the Automator tool. Yet, when saved as an App, the action "Get Contact Information" looses its settings for which fields of a contact should be shown. It always shows only the default settingss, as when the action is added to the workflow. No changes to the selected addressbook fields nor to their sequence are saved, which can be seen, after re-opening the app in Automator.
Any one? Any clue?
Regards
     Andi

Answer 1

Hi Andi,
Just got done at aforementioned client and created this workaround that does allow you to set the printer in a workflow, or at least reset the default printer in a workflow.
Here is a screen shot of the beginning of a workflow:
The full AppleScript text is:
on run {input, parameters}
          tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
                    set the_printer to the current printer
                    set the_name to the name of the_printer
                    if the_name is not "Epson" then
                              set the_count to the count of printers
                              repeat with x from 1 to the_count
                                        if the name of printer x is "Epson" then
                                                  set the current printer to printer x
                                        end if
                              end repeat
                    end if
                    quit
          end tell
          tell application "Finder" to print file input
          return input
end run
Change "Epson" to the name of your printer.
For you AppleScriptors, yes there are more elegant shorter solutions but every one I tried failed but this one.
I created these as "Print Plugins".
But, of course, just as you kill one dragon another one pops up. The Watermark PDF File which works perfectly in Leopard is broken in Lion. Known problem apparently.
Apple is making so much money I guess they feel they can get sloppy. Too bad.