Photoshop CS4 Network Printing

I have an issue if I have multiple network printers mapped on my workstation of the same model type/driver, the Adobe Photoshop Print Dialog resorts to the first of the two printers when going to page setup or hitting print when the second printer is selected. For example:
I have two printers A and B, both same model using the same print driver mapped in Windows. Printer B is set as my default printer. In Adobe Photoshop CS4, when selecting > File>Print when the dialog box opens for the print options, if I select "Page Setup" the page setup dialog box for Printer A will appear (even though printer B was set in the printer drop-down menu on the Print dialog gui. In addition, if I have printer B selected in the Print gui, and I select the "Print" button, when the next windows print dialog box pop's up, Printer A will be selected. Photoshop always resolves to the first alphabetically mapped printer of the same model.

Network printers with the same driver need to be mapped to different virtual printer ports to be truly distinguishable. has to do with how windows resolves shared resources. If the printer driver doesn't offer this option during install, you can always do so manually in the advanced printer settings...
Mylenium

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I know this is a long post but I have been working on this problem and have heard all of the pat and frankly useless answers and workarounds. Can we find a solution and fix the problem?

Just a few examples, since you ask:
Dr Craig wrote:
…The first suggestion is absurd to the point of making me wonder what process is used to construct the kbs…
…Other solutions are not acceptable…
…The final solution offered is that CS5 has solved all of this. Hum? interesting. No comment except new program, new problems so not a real solution for us…
…In every case the problem is never solved by Adobe or anyone else and users find some "workaround"…
"...a nasty, nasty solution"…
…Adobe does seem supportive but not that interested (CS4 right)… b
…I have been working on this problem and have heard all of the pat and frankly useless answers and workarounds…
That attitude, Dr. Craig. Plus the verbosity you unconscionably inflicted on your fellow forum users.
Cheers.
Wo Tai Lao Le
我太老了       (Not posting as a scientist here
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Hello First time i have posted on this.
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Tech support put me on hold for about 30 minutes to 'look up my serial number'. When he came back he started saying he did find my serial nu..... and he hung up. I had already given him my callback number. Yet he never called me back when we were 'disconnected'. There is no excuse for him not calling me back. I have no reason to believe this was anything other than intentional avoidance of the problem. Before he started looking up my serial number, he told me that Photoshop didn't support working with files on a network drive (???). He also told me that even if it was found to be an actual defect in the product, I still owed the $39. The $39 was "not for finding the defect... it was for the technician's time.... (???) Where do they find these people to answer the phones?
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1) I complete a PSD file and save it
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4) If I say 'no' to the save-after-print question, I can go to another computer, open the same file and print with no problem
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6) This scenario applies to any machine. Once I hit 'save' after printing, that PSD can now never be printed on any other machine other than that one.
7) And this is a user problem (???)
Somebody please tell me:
1) why PS marks a file 'changed' and requires saving after doing nothing other than printing it if it is not saving printer history/setup in the file?
2) Why I can print the PSD from any computer with PS installed as long as I don't do a save after printing from one, but as soon as I do a save after print, the file is basically locked permanently to that one machine forever?
Right... and they want a minimum of $39 to tell me a) this is a user problem, b) Photoshop doesn't support files on a shared network drive; c) "...NO.... we don't save printer information in the file, and d) get hung up on with no callback.
I have 40 years of experience in software architecture and development. I know enough to know a little bit about how these things work. And I also have been around long enough to recognize intentional denial of a product defect by the support team.

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