600105 - Default Printer not selected.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Printing, defect)

Description

[Greg Hudson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4

When choosing PRINT from TB toolbar, the Print Dialog appears, but instead of having the Windows 7 (32bit) DEFAULT printer selected (which in my case is a Network Printer) the LOCAL printer is always displayed. Yes, I can select the network printer from the drop down list, but if I forget, the output goes to the wrong printer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display message.
2. Choose PRINT
3. Default printer not selected.
Actual Results:  
As above

Expected Results:  
Default printer should be displayed.

All other Apps (that I've tested) appear to be choosing the default printer  correctly.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

what happens if you reverse the setting, if local printer is set as the default?

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Greg, please, could you answer to comment #1?

Comment 3

[Greg Hudson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> what happens if you reverse the setting, if local printer is set as the
> default?

G'Day.
If I plug the network printer in locally, (using a long USB cable) it will print OK.

Also, just to clarify, I'm talking about the same physical printer. I only have ONE printer, which is normally connected to a different PC (networked & shared, on a Win XP x86 box).  In my Win 7 printers dialog box, I have the SAME printer listed twice - one for when the printer is connected locally, the other for when it is a LAN connection.

However... Having just re-tested the print function to the LAN printer (set as the default) it (Thunderbird) is now selecting the LAN printer correctly (go figure). Perhaps because I deleted the printer & re-added it in the Printers section. 

Given the above, please kill the bug report.

Apologies for the time wasting.

Regards, Greg.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for updating the bug