My computer defaults to landscape printing

Each time I try to print, my computer wants to default to the landscape printing. I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to change that setting...among a couple others. Can somone help me out and let me know how you change default printer setting on my MacBook Pro?
Thank you!!!!
Mike

shamelessly lifted from another post:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2700380?start=0&tstart=0
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To change the default Print orientation for Safari (and Preview, Mail, ...)
1) start TextEdit, or another Apple app that has a "page setup" dialog in the "File" menu
2) pull down the "File" menu, and open the "page setup" dialog box
3) change "Orientation" to the one you want as default, example: "portrait"
4) select "Save as default" in the above "Settings" pop-up menu
5) select "any printer" in the "Format For" pop-up menu (of course, if you want make the change for all your printers)
6) click OK and quit TextEdit
7) quit (if not done yet) and restart the other Apple apps (Safari, Preview ....)
The default orientation should have changed into the one you have selected and "saved as default" in the TextEdit dialog.
This has properly worked for me. Good luck.
-----------< end >-----------
and it worked for me!

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