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Outlook Prints to wrong printer

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Ok, weird one here. On a client machine we have a user who has Outlook and Windows 2000. With a message closed he clicks on print (the icon, not file print) which when he hovers over the icon it says it is going to the research dept's printer (theone he wants) but it prints to the accounting printer. Both printers are on the same printer they are Lexmark Optra printers. If you open the print queue when he prints it shows it is going to the accounting printer although some messages print tothe appropriate printer. I noticed in technet that there is a fix for this in Outlook 2002 by changing the print setup in IE, as html documents use IE's default printer. This didn't work. I have deleted and reinstalled both printers, still nothing. very bizzare. When you print directly to the pritner (file, print) it works just fine. Any suggestions?

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by monte admin

Correction, it should read both printers are on the same printserver. Also, the user has the research printer set as his default (which is the printer he wants to print to.)

by cruncher_1

The first thing I would try is to change the network names of both printers so that the total name is shorter than 8 characters with no spaces. I know this is not supposed to be an issue with W2K, but it has solved similar problems for me.

I hopethis helps.

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