Windows 7 Controls All Printing?

We have come across an issue that began when we upgraded to Windows 7 from XP. We can no longer "tray" print.
We have our programs set up so that the users don't have to remember every printer setting for every document they print. After upgrading to Windows 7, that ability went out the window. The printers will only print what the default says in Windows 7, unless
you manually set the settings while you are actively printing.
For instance, I have an Access report set to print to an HP LJ 2430, Tray 2, green paper, landscape. The windows default settings for that printer are Auto tray, Auto paper, portrait. When the report is run from Access it prints to tray 3, on white paper,
portrait layout.
Why does Windows 7 not allow the programs to print the way they are setup to print?

Hi,
How about other programs? When this issue happens, it's always a good idea to update the printer driver as I mentioned above, for mMicrosoft Access 2010, this KB for Word might give us some hints:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904805
Please take a look of this link:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/01569f4f-c231-444f-9c5a-6e80915af42c/office-2010-ignores-printer-settings?forum=officeitproprevious
While I'm not very familiar with Office settings, it's recommended to ask in this forum for further help
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=officeitproprevious&sort=relevancedesc&brandIgnore=True&searchTerm=access
Regarding to the SYSPRO, any response from the application vender?
Regards.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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Warren.

Hi Shu,
I have noticed that the print templates API is listed as part of the Legacy APIs.
Is this just because it hasn't changed or is not new? Or does this mean that it is no longer maintained and may be removed (or at least deprecated) at some point in the future?
It would good to know if we should start planning for the implementation of a different method of printing.
I understand that the sample application is no longer maintained, but I also think that the Print Template API that it uses has not changed, and so should still work (and it does mostly).
If the Print Preview window was being closed as a result of using the Print dialog (and if it had behaved the same way with IE8) I would be willing to go with the by design argument.
I have found that the Print Preview window is not closed until startDoc is called, and it closes before control is returned from the startDoc function.
Just as part of investigating and try to find a workaround, if I call window.close(), any alert calls made no longer display the alert window after the close call.
Alert still functions after startDoc has closed the window however.
The is not the sort of consistent behaviour I would expect from something that is by design.
Also while investigating, I found that calling startDoc after calling window.close() results in an exception with the error code -2147467259 (0x80004005), this is probably quite normal and expected, but does indicate that the Web Browser Control should
not be closed till after printing.
I had found that old thread, and I had concluded it was the same issue, but it was also aimed at different aspect of the problem (which I see in the sample application, but not my application).
The visible issue I have is that my users think the application has been closed because after clicking print (on the Print dialog) the application gets hidden by other windows from other applications.
This aspect affects the sample in the same manner and so it was a convenient way to demonstrate the problem.
If IE connect do not look at this issue any time soon, do I have any other avenues to resolve this issue?
Thank you,
Warren.

C# console app - print job vanishes in Windows 8 regardless of print driver used; works in Windows 7

I have the following which sends a print file to a specific printer. It works perfectly in Windows 7, but not in Windows 8. The print job shows in the print queue until the print job is closed. Then the print job literally vanishes from the print
queue. This issue occurs with all print drivers, including generic text only. Conversely, I can still use the "winspool.drv" DLL directly under Windows 8 and it works. Please advise. Thank you.
Here is my code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Printing;
namespace PrinterLib
public static class PrintToSpooler
public static string SendFileToPrinter(string szPrinterName, string szFileName, string docName)
try
// Create the printer server and print queue objects
//PrintQueue defaultPrintQueue = LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue();
//PrintQueue mypq = new PrintServer().GetPrintQueue(szPrinterName);
//using (var printq = defaultPrintQueue)
using (var printq = new PrintServer().GetPrintQueue(szPrinterName))
using (PrintSystemJobInfo job = printq.AddJob(docName))
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
FileStream fs = new FileStream(szFileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.None);
fs.CopyTo(memoryStream);
fs.Close();
Byte[] myByteBuffer = memoryStream.ToArray();
// Write a Byte buffer to the JobStream and close the stream
job.JobStream.Write(myByteBuffer, 0, myByteBuffer.Length);
job.JobStream.Flush();
printq.Commit();
return null;
catch (Exception ex)
return ex.Message;

Hello folks,
I have been facing the same problem until right now. All above suggested methods failed (as it did for Jeff0123) . But after long research on that issue I think I found the reason (but no proper solution yet).
MS Windows 8 and 2012 use a new printer driver generation based on XPS. Which means drivers like "generic text-only" won't work properly depending on the method the data is sent to the printer. In my case the
same way like Jeff0123 tried to access the printers.
See link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2779300
One solution might be to use API calls. I have also found a site which shows an example project for thermal slip printing. The VB.NET source code there features a wrapper class for all API calls. The functions you find behave pretty similar to the ones of
the posted C# code example of Jeff0123. I did a small test so far and for my needs that works fine.
Although the page is in German you can find the mentioned class by searching for "Public
Class RawPrinter". Beside the comments the class methods are written in English. You find the class here: http://www.vbarchiv.net/tipps/tipp_2375-kassenbon-drucker-mit-vbnet-oder-c-per-esc-pos-befehle-ansprechen.html
Hope that might help for at least a few of you. So long!

Controlling the printer

Hi,
I have an iPad 1 which is up to date with the latest O/S and a new Canon 6250 printer connected to a wireless router. I can print directly from the Apple Pages app and others like Goodreader but they all cause the printer to print from the rear paper tray which is where you put photo paper not the front plain paper tray.
There rear paper tray is usually empty while the fromt tray holds up to 150 sheets of plain paper. I wold prefer not to have to go and load the rear tray every time I want to rint from the iPad.
I suspect the reason this happens is the iPad is treaitng everything it prints as an image so despite writing a text document in Pages it gets printed as a photo. I doubt that is good for ink consumption either as the printing seems to ignore any printer settings to use plain paper etc.
Has anyine got any experience printing to Canon printers like this which may help? Or is there an app I culd install that gives more control over printing? Canon do an iPad photo priniting app but it is just for photos.
Thanks.

Dave, I assume you are using Airprint to print your documents? I believe the issue you're observing is a glitch in AirPrint when it is used in conjunction with an "all in one" printer that has can print photos as well as documents. Others have reported similar behavior with other printers, such as HP.
The problem is that AirPrint doesn't offer the user the choice of paper trays, paper sizes, image sizes, etc. In that way, it's a fairly limited app. On the other hand, the HP Home and Biz priniting app does offer these choices. I use an HP printer, and if I need something printed in a specific size or on a specific type of paper, I use this app instead of AirPrint. To the users of HP printers, I recommend getting this app (it's free) just because it offers so much more flexibility over AirPrint.
EDIT: I neglected to mention that Canon has a similar app, Canon i-Photo Print I think it is called, but it only prints with photos, not documents (Word, PDF, etc.). It may let you choose different PHOTO sizes and papers, though. Worth a look anyway.

SB Audigy2 w/Vista: Creative Volume Control conflict with Windows Volume Control(sndvol.ex

Hi Everyone,
I'm running Windows Vista on a Dell Dimension 8300 with a SoundBlaster Audigy 2(WDM) card. I have a few no-mind questions about how these things all work together:
. After I installed Creative's Vista driver upgrade for the SB Audigy 2 series, I noticed that there are now two volume control icons in the system tray. One is for the Creative Volume Control. The other is the original Windows Volume Control (sndvol.exe). Should these two controls be running at the same time?
2. The Master Volume is a lot lower in Vista than it was in XP. When I let Vista pick the sound drivers the first time around, I figured the lower volume had something to do with those. So I downloaded and installed the Vista SB Audigy 2 Driver Upgrade from Creative's website. The volume is still very low, however, and I have to peak all my volume controls to hear much of anything. Does anyone have any ideas why this should be so?
Thanks to all who took the time to read this! Have a good day,
Big Al Mintaka

Hi DakkonA,
Have you been in contact with Support? I would advised you to get in touch with them to rectify this issue.
Best of luck,

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