Access printing to a printer that has been deleted in Windows

[swirlygirl]

We are migrating printers from one server to another and we have an Access
database that users print from. We deleted the users' old printer mappings
and created the new printer mappings pointing to the new print server. I
have one user that when he prints a from the Access database, it's still
going to the old printer (old print server), even though it's not listed in
his Printers. The user has XP. We have created a new profile for this user
hoping this would solve the problem, but it does not. We had another user
login to the same computer and print the same form and it printed to the new
print server. Any suggestions?

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

If his reports are changed in Design View of each to the Default Printer,
whichever that is, they will print there. Access, by default, prints to the
Windows default printer. That can be changed by changing the printer for
that particular report and saving it.

 

[Larry Daugherty]

Open the problem Report(s) on the machine of a user who is not having
problems. Open Print Setup and not the printer chosen, probably
"Default" but could be something else. Note it for each trouble
report.

Go to the problem machine and open the problem Access Report(s) one at
a time and insert the values you found above.

HTH

 

[swirlygirl]

I figured out that in Page Setup the form was trying to print to a specific
printer instead of the default printer and I changed that and it worked, but
the specific printer it listed was the new printer, so I'm still not sure how
or why it was printing to the old printer. But, in the end it's working, so
thanks!

 

[George Nicholson]

Simply opening PageSetup probably changed the default printer setting.
Saving changes to the report did the rest.