Once you start the program, click Add Program and a new window will pop up listing all open windows. The application will then monitor the open window and make the selected printer, the default. Instead of having to manually switch the printer, wouldn’t it be easy if an application can do it automatically for you.Īutomatic Printer Switcher, as the name says, is a tool where you can map a printer to a specific window.
VB.Do you have multiple printers connected to the system and want to use each of them for different print jobs? Suppose you want to use “Printer A” when printing a PDF document, “Printer B” when printing an image, and so on. If it doesn't work, then start again with a new copy of the macro and type in the correct data until it does work.Ī WP6.x macro should be much simpler to make, and I'll provide one sometime in the next few days.ĮDIT: I've added some minimal error-checking to the macro it will prompt you if you neglect to type a printer name into the macro. If you typed the correct names, and you did not add or remove tildes in the macro file, the macro should most certainly work. If an error message appears, that means that you mistyped the name of your Windows printer or the location of your Windows folder or both, or that you otherwise mistyped something that damaged the macro. So if you already have a crucial irreplaceable file named SETPTR#.BAT, make a copy of it now, because any existing file by that name will be overwritten. It creates a temporary batch file named SETPTR#.BAT in the current WP directory, runs the batch file, the deletes the batch file. While editing the macro, if necessary, also change the name of your Windows directory in case it is NOT C:\WINDOWS (it might be F:\WINDOWS, for example). If you get this wrong, the macro is guaranteed NOT to work. Remember, the name that you need to type is NOT the one on the front of the physical printer, but only - and exactly - the name that Windows displays in its Devices and Printers menu and that appears when you choose the Print menu from a Windows application. 
The name must be exactly right, with no quotation marks and no extra spaces. Next, you absolutely MUST edit each macro in WP (Ctrl-F10, LASERJET or whatever name you chose), and type in the EXACT name of your printer where it tells you to do so, using the name that Windows displays on its print menus.
If you want to switch between default printers, make a second copy of the macro, and rename one something like LASERJET.WPM and the other something like INKJET.WPM Here is a WPDOS 5.1 macro that sets the default Windows printer when used with vDosWP.
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