How can I ensure that Printing Defaults are reset on the clients?

Hi,
we have a setup with a Windows Server 2008 print cluster and a mix of Windows XP and Windows 7 clients. On all clients the users are local admins.
When the install a new print queue the Printing Preferences at the client is set to the "correct" values, meaning the values that we have set on the server. But if they change the settings (e.g. from Black/White to Colour) the setting is kept even after
the application is closed.
Either things have changed over time or the issue is caused by letting the users be local admins, but I beleive that the settings where previously set back to defaults once the application, from where the settings where changed, was closed.
Can someone please tell me how to ensure that users do get the servers Printing Default forced on to them and that settings changed within an application is lost when closing the application?
Thanks for your help - it is much appreciated!
Best regards
David

I see it's a quite old post but still without an answer.
What follows it's not exactly what David asked for (application-aware reset of printing defaults).
I ended up here searching for a way to refresh printing defaults on clients without having users to remove/add printers manually. I hope this helps someone.
A viable solution might be to create a login vbs script deleting -> adding all network printers currently installed on the user profile. Default printer setting is not affected.
Tested on Windows 7 x64 clients and 2008 R2 print server.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Printer")
For Each objPrinter in colPrinters
If InStr(objPrinter.DeviceID, "\\") = 1 Then
UNCPrinter = objPrinter.DeviceID
objPrinter.Delete_
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection UNCPrinter
End If
Next

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