Classic printers lose settings on restart

The setting saved for the printers created in Classic with Desktop Printer Utility remember their settings after Classic restart while all those created under OS X and automatically transferred to Classic lose saved settings and get default ones. Setting and saving new settings for OS X printers from under Classic works only until Classic restart.
I was able to trace it down to the LaserWriter prefs file (System Folder:Preferences:Printing Prefs:LaserWriter 8 Prefs), which actually keeps the saved settings but GETS OVERWRITTEN on every Classic restart. Replacing the "new" copy of this file with the "old" one solves the problem, but even if scripted, this is only a workaround, and the question is:
How to avoid this behavior?
G4, G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I don't think there is a way to avoid this behavior except with the workaround you discovered. You could do a copy/paste with a resource editor, pasting the resources from the old prefs file into the new one, to ensure you don't lose any information just added, but that's still the same amount of work, if not more.
Sorry to not be of any help.

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Does Google Cloud Print create a Windows printer device? If so, it should appear in the drop-down of available printers in the Print dialog. If not, you may need an add-on for this.
On your Android device?
The older add-on I saw (for Firefox/Android) may not work any more: recent reviews are very negative: https://addons.mozilla.org/mobile/addon/cloud-printer/

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5148
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