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I have seceral printers, how do I setup the 'select printer' dialog instead of just printing on 'default' printer?

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I have several printers on my network, and, I would simply like when I click the 'print' button, I get the 'select printer' dialog so I can choose which printer I would like to send the job to. If there is an add-on... great!, but I can't find anything except 'change default printer', which is not what I want to do, I want to be able to select which printer on my network I would like the job to go to. All my printers are setup correctly and show up in my (drivers/programs) section, that's not the problem...

I have several printers on my network, and, I would simply like when I click the 'print' button, I get the 'select printer' dialog so I can choose which printer I would like to send the job to. If there is an add-on... great!, but I can't find anything except 'change default printer', which is not what I want to do, I want to be able to select which printer on my network I would like the job to go to. All my printers are setup correctly and show up in my (drivers/programs) section, that's not the problem...

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By shear trial and error because the problem was not resolved, I risked crashing my OS and went to that config editor (that appeared risky to begin with) and found that 'print_print' thingy and removed the string that named the printer it kept sending to without any choices, then restarted TB... it seems my gamble worked, it looks like I have the old faithful 'select printer' option window now...

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This question always puzzles me because I always get a dialogue inviting me to choose the printer. This is in both Windows and Linux.

Do other programs offer you an option to choose the printer?

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Yes, I believe all other programs that I use offer the option, I did look at the 'printer_printer' thingy and tried to leave it 'blank' instead of the default it showed, but I don't think that worked... (i was weary changing this and I didn't restart TB, but when it showed no obvious change, I put back what was there)

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I tried using the 'FiltaQuilla' add on, but again, it just sent the email to my default printer without any option... I am using TB 52.3.0 (32-bit) on a 64-bit win7, am i using the correct TB client?

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By shear trial and error because the problem was not resolved, I risked crashing my OS and went to that config editor (that appeared risky to begin with) and found that 'print_print' thingy and removed the string that named the printer it kept sending to without any choices, then restarted TB... it seems my gamble worked, it looks like I have the old faithful 'select printer' option window now...