If they are setup with Group Policy you should be able to set default print settings on the server. A good guide can be found here:http://deployhappiness.com/deploying-printers-with-group-policy-preferences/ -- Riley Childs Senior IT Admin Charlotte United Christian Academy office: +1 (704) 537-0331 x101 mobile: +1 (704) 497-2086 web: rileychilds.net twitter: @RowdyChildren Checkout our new Online Library Catalog: catalog.cucawarriors.com ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Angie Stangl <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:35 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Printing + Active Directory Hello All, I'm still relatively new to this list, however, based on discussion I've already seen I thought I'd try this topic for this list. So, we've recently switched to Active Directory on our public machines. Although we're a relatively small library, it is still creating some printing chaos. We added the printers to the computers manually using an admin account and the printers are mapped to the LPR port and defaults/preferences are all set. However, these preferences and settings don't seem to hold when users login. Is there a nice way to set the default printer for users? And preferences like printing double sided? I recognize some of this might be able to be done at a group policy level, but, I wanted to see what other folks were doing. *TL;DR:* *How do you manage local printing (printers are in our building) when computers are on Active Directory (managed at a campus level)? *I'm curious what works (or doesn't work) for other libraries. Have a good afternoon! Angela Stangl Digital Services Coordinator Rodney A. Briggs Library University of Minnesota, Morris amstangl(at)morris.umn.edu p.s. I'd be willing to take responses off-list if that helpful.