PS won't recognize "default" printer

This is an annoyance rather than an emergency-I'm on a Mac, I have three printers, and I want to use one in particular for a PS printing task. I fill up the printer with the right paper, then call up the flle and hit "print", forgetting to notice that the assigned printer is the wrong one. So a wasted proof. So I go to Sys Prefs and set the "default" printer to the one I want, go back to PS, pick the file, hit print, and I still get the wrong printer, so I set the print dialogue box for the right one manually, get the print, call up another file, and hit print again. The Print dialogue box has reset back to the wrong printer. Photoshop seems to have its own "default" printer selection system, independent of the overall system preferences. Whether that's actually the case or not, How the heck do I get PS to recognize and use the "default" printer, rather than settling on its own random choice?

Further information: "Default" doesn't work in Illustrator or Photoshop, but it does work in other software, e.g., Apple Pages and MSWord. I haven't tried the system in other Adobe apps, but is this just an Adobe-Hates-Apple-and Apple-Hates-Adobe situation? Or is it just me?

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need more info:
what kind of printer is it?
do have the drivers for it?
do have the printer setup utility?
what version of the OS do you have?
if you have OSX at least, then :
if you can access the utilities folder, you should be able to find the Printer setup Utility. If you do not have that , the n you need to archive and install :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
if you do have the Printer Setup Utility, then
open that up, it will open a window called " Printer List"
click on " Add"
- that will open a window called Printer Browser
- if the printer is plugged in and powered on, you will see the printer name listed there.
- select it , then click on " add " in the bottom right
- if you do not see any printer listed in the printer browser, then try a different usb port and try again.
- if you are able to add the printer, then try a test print, it should work with a default driver.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1253
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