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Always Prints at 200%

This is for a colleague - I can't figure it out.
His MacBook Pro always prints at 200%, no matter what application he's in. He can change it to 100% in the print dialog, but has to change it every single time, as it always reverts back to 200%. Where to I set this to 100% so he doesn't have to change it?

17" Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 8, 2008 1:01 PM

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Sep 8, 2008 1:51 PM in response to Brian Taylor2

That's strange. In Safari, the scale always reverts back to 100%, no matter what setting is used. AFAICT, the scale setting in Page Setup is retained when the document is saved. Open an untitled document (TextEdit is used for this example), select Page Setup (CMDSHIFTP), set the scale to 100%. click on the Settings: dropdown, and select Save as Default. Your colleague might have to do that for all text and other programs.

Sep 9, 2008 10:25 AM in response to baltwo

I couldn't find the scale in any of the plists either, but throwing away the com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist reset the scale to 100%. I don't think that the scaling factor is saved on a per-app basis, because of what happens when throwing away the com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist file and also because making a change to scale in TextEdit causes the change to appear in, for example, Safari.

That said, your way is probably the easiest and the safest.

Always Prints at 200%

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