Two printers with different paper sizes. How to setup defaults for each?

I have two printers connected to my beloved Mini: Samsung ML-1610 & Epson AccuLaser C1100.
First printer uses American Quarto US Letter paper.
Second one - European A4.
Every time I try to print anything on either of them I receive a message from printer driver that paper size mismatched. Further more either printer will wait until I press buttons on them to "proceed". Which is very annoying to say the least.
How can I setup defaults for every printer in Mac OS Leopard? If I use printer preferences dialog it will setup either size for both printers rather than for each its own.
Please advise.

PAHU wrote:
You cannot do exactly what you want from a user interface perspective. I am not sure if such a thing is possible by making changes to hidden files. I certainly haven't heard of it but it may still be possible.
From what I have seen, the page setup dialog is independent of the print dialog. If you set the 'Format for' to one printer, a then choose a different printer when you print, the previous settings won't apply.
You could see if the printer set to A4 supports automatic conversion of LTR to A4. Then at least it won't ask for attention when you send a LTR page to it. Otherwise I think your only option is to check before you print that you have selected the correct paper size for the printer.
PaHu
That's freaking ridiculous!!!
You've got to be kidding me... right?
Even MacOS 8 could do this.
Like it's horrible for me because I print a lot of photos. So I set my default paper type Format for: Canon MP610 series, Paper Size: US Letter (borderless). But then when I go home and print web pages or text documents on my Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS, then it still remains set to Format for: Canon MP610 series. The freaking OS knows what printer I'm using; why would it remain formatted for the other printer even though that will cut off the edges of all my prints (since the LaserWriter does not do borderless printing) -- and not even warn me?! I just wasted 30 pages!
I cannot tell you how preposterous it is that a modern OS like Mac OS X cannot even get a simple thing such as printing correct. How could they screw up PRINTING?!
-Jon

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