Sorry, but another printer question

I know how to default the a given printer, with vbs or a regisry edit, BUT, is it possible to check if a local printer is defaulted (LPT) and change it, but if a network work printer is already defaulted leave it defaulted.

In other words, say I have 5 network printers and one lpt printer, I want to default to a network printer, but if a user chooses another network printer, I don't want to change it on them.

Is this possible, or am I doomed to force a default no matter what. 

Thanks.

Flue

If a user chooses another printer, after your script has run, there is nothing to do, you don't want to have a script idle for the whole time.
 
Best bet is to assign rights to a specific printer on the network for each user, and just have one printer assigned

I would say we are doing that for about 80% of our systems. But then there are those that are beyond crap and are constantly being re-imaged or have floating users.  Our login scripts take care of everything but setting a default printer.  The default is letf on a PDF writter that drives me nuts.  Every new user of a system saves their print job as a pdf docu, then calls the help desk because they can't "find" the printer they sent their job to.

If it's not possible to search before defaulting, what about using the RunOnce registry key.  I may need another forum for that one.

Thanks for the reply.

Flue

RunOnce

 
This forum is very handy also for Registry tips and trick through VBScript...just use our Search functionality....
 
You could default any printer other than the PDF Writer or the FAX printer....(which are both very default printers nowadays)
 
Just like, i.e.:
 
Select case Printer
Case "PDF"
  'do nothing
Case "Fax Manager"
 'do nothing
Case Else
 Printer.MakeDefault
End Select