OSX vs XP method of printer management?

I currently have XP and have been looking at Mac for a long time. I find myself in need of a laptop and thought I would try a MacBook Pro.
I have a question about printer management. I HATE THE WAY XP DOES IT!!
Here is what I hate: When you use four or five different printers, you frequently end up printing to the wrong one. Windows can only have one default printer at a time. I wish each program could have a default printer setting.
For instance, I print from Photoshop to my Epson R1800 98% of the time, rarely wanting to print anywhere else. I print to my Xerox Phaser from InDesign most of the time. (InDesign will save printer choice and settings with the document)
When I print an envelope from my Word Processor, I only print to my HP4 with the envelope feeder. I find myself changing the default printer several times a day some days.
Sorry to rant about XP, but please tell me that Macs have a better way of doing this.
Thanks,
Kirk

Thanks for the answers.
One click and you select the printer.
All the available printers are listed right there.
Sounds pretty much like XP. I don't like the one default printer for all programs scheme.
A few programs that I have seen have a default printer setting built into the options, like the UPS Worldship software, where you can set up two different default printers that can both be different from the system default. It seems silly that each program has to write their own custom printer setup to enable different printers automatically from different applications, this should be written at the OS level.
I was hoping that OSX would be much different than XP in this matter.
Kirk

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