Multiple printers, different paper sizes, Ventura.

Hi RickSean,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. Just to be sure, are you seeing the available options to adjust the print options from the Print dialog that appears? Just to be sure, here the guidelines on how to modify the paper size in macOS Ventura: Choose a paper size for your printed document on Mac - Apple Support

Choose a paper size for your printed document on Mac

You can choose a paper size to match the sheet size in your printer and set a default paper size for routine printing.

Change paper size for printing

You can specify the paper size that you use in your printer.

1. With a document open on your Mac, choose File > Print.

2. Choose a paper size from the Paper Size pop-up menu.

In apps such as Pages or Microsoft Word, you can also specify a page size for a document as you’re working on it. When you print, the document is already formatted to fit the paper size you selected. However, you can choose to scale the document to fit your printer’s paper. See Reduce or enlarge pages and images to fit on a page.

In most apps, the Paper Size menu has a Manage Custom Sizes option. If you choose this option, see Print on unusual sized paper by creating a custom paper size.

Change the default paper size you routinely use for printing

If you usually print on a particular size of paper, you can set it as the default paper size, so it’s used whenever you print. (You can still change the paper size in the Print dialog if you need to.)

The default size is also used as the page size whenever you create a new document in an app, such as Pages. Changing the default size affects only new documents; it doesn’t change previously created documents.

1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Printers & Scanners  in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)

2. Choose a paper size from the “Default paper size” pop-up menu on the right.

Following these steps may help.

Kind regards.

@RickSean did you ever end up filing anything with Apple Support? I would like to upvote anything I can about this issue cause it's been annoying me too on Ventura 13.4.1

I have a letter-size printer and a 4x6 label printer, and I frequently use them both. But the macos print dialogue seems to be capable of remembering the "last used" settings only for whichever one is set as the default printer. So whenever I select the non-default printer I need to re-select the correct dimensions. Not the biggest hardship ever but it definitely interrupts my workflow to have to keep checking it (and occasionally missing it and wasting a piece of paper)

Using a preset makes it slightly easier than scrolling through the giant list of dimensions, but it's still another thing to check and select every time. You'd think a computer with 32GB of memory should be able to remember the settings for at least two printers...

Hi RickSean,

Sounds like this might be expected. However, you might want to reach out to Apple Support directly to have this looked into further.

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