Setting Document Defaults

It is easy to confuse printer-specific settings with document properties. Document properties do not rely on a device's physical settings. When applications create a new document, they often ask the printer for the default document settings.

The following table shows typical document and printer-specific properties.

To view a shared printer queue's Document Properties, open the Printers folder, click on the printer, and then click on Document Defaults on the File menu.

	NOTE: Document properties that are set from an application always override document defaults set in the printer's property sheets. However, if an application does not set a document property (such as page orientation or paper size), the print device defaults to the document properties that were set in the printer's Document Properties sheets.