Default Printer

I use Numbers 08, and I move around from office to home. Naturally I have different printers at home from my office. So in my default printer settings under System Preferences is set to "Last Printer Used".
Numbers does not honour this setting. It will always pick the printer that used to be the default before you set the printer preferences to "Last Printer Used".
Example:
When I first setup my computer I set my default printer to a printer called "Home Printer". Then I installed numbers, printed and all is well.
Then I bring my computer to work, add a printer called "Work Printer". Then set my default printer to "Last Printer Used". Numbers will always by default show "Home Printer" as my target printer when I try to print. I always have to change it to whichever printer I need to print. This gets annoying when I print several documents at a time.
If I change my default printer under Systems Preferences to "Work Printer", then change it back to "Last Printer Used", numbers will always use "Work Printer" as my default printer, even after I've printed to "Home Printer" several times already.
What's worse is, if I print a document, and select "Home Printer", then print it again, it doesn't keep "Home Printer" as the target printer. I'd have to select it again.
It's pretty annoying.
Anyone else have this problem? Got any solutions? I looked at the com.apple.iWork.Numbers.plist file but I didn't find any printer setting in there. I've delete that file but the behaviour persists.

Use feedback under the Numbers menubar to request a change. This annoyance has been around for a while.

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