Changing Printer Dialogue Box Standard Setting

Help! This is driving me crazy. I print thousands of documents every week from Filemaker. For some reason - probably something I have done ages ago - my 'Standard' preset in the printer dialogue box defaults to printing 2 copies. Yes I know it's easy to just change this manually to 1 copy but I have tried every way possible to change the 'Standard' preset and have failed. Does anyone know how to do this? I called Apple Support and they were useless.

It might help if you delete the following prefs files in your home directory's Preferences folder. They have the following form:
com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist - the general prefs file if the setting is not related to presets, and you might want to delete this one last in case deleting the other two, if they both exist, works.
com.apple.print.custompresets.plist
com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.<printername>.plist
You could also try changing this value with the CUPS page: http://127.0.0.1:631/
Hope this helps.

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Options such as Quality & Media are known as PDEs (Print Dialog Extensions) and they are added to the standard print dialog by the driver installer. For the new Intel Mac's, to get these extensions to appear (or appear without a line through them) you need to have a driver that is written in Universal Binary.
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This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
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Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
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Yes, very strange. If you see a few posts up I actually did get it to work the way I need it to. I called Epson and they had ne reset the printer settings through the system preferences. On my first try this did NOT work, however everything worked as it should in Preview (another image program) and since it did work there the Epson tech basically siad then it's not their problem - most likely adobe.
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OSX: 10.9 (Mavericks)
Adobe Reader version: 11.0.06
Details:
After installing Reader 11.0.06, the print dialogue box does not appear through the print button or through File -> Print... . As a result, I simply cannot print PDF documents when using Adobe Reader.
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