- #How to change default printer profile brother install#
- #How to change default printer profile brother driver#
- #How to change default printer profile brother windows 10#
From here, you can rename them, delete them, change their preferences, or add more printers and they’ll all appear as separate devices.įor example, you can quickly right-click one of the printers here and select “Delete” to remove the second printer profile from your system.
This opens the old Printer management window, which shows every printer device you’ve installed separately. You can manage these devices a bit more easily by pressing Windows + R to open the Run dialog, copy-pasting the following line into it, and pressing Enter: shell:::
#How to change default printer profile brother windows 10#
In the Windows 10 Settings interface, click the “Manage” button for a printer and you’ll be able to switch between the printer profiles you’ve installed to change settings for each. For example, to see the secondary printer in the Devices and Settings window, right-click the physical printer and you’ll see options for each installed printer device. You can still see the alternate printers from the normal printer configuration window, if you like. Windows automatically combines them together in these printer management interfaces, which is a little inconvenient. While the additional printers you add will show up as options in the Print dialog, they don’t appear normally in the Devices and Printers window, or in the new Settings > Devices > Printers and Scanners interface on Windows 10.
#How to change default printer profile brother install#
You can install the same printer as many times as you like, assigning different profiles of preferences to each one. There’s nothing stopping you from creating more than two printers, too. Each will print to the same physical printer, but you won’t have to spend time changing your settings back and forth every time you want to print-just select the appropriate printer in the list. You can also right-click a printer and click “Rename” to rename each printer, giving them names that correspond to your saved settings.įor example, you might set one printer device to print in color at high-detail settings and one printer to print in black and white with low detail settings. You can select the printer and click the “Preferences” button or right-click it and select “Printing Preferences” to assign different preferences to each device, and Windows will remember the settings separately. Your new printer device will appear as an option in standard print dialogs.
You can click “Print a test page” to test the printer, if you like. You can name it whatever you want, so pick a name that helps you remember which physical printer and printing settings it will use.įinally, choose whether to set up printer sharing or not and click “Next.”
#How to change default printer profile brother driver#
Select “Use the driver that is currently installed (recommended)” and click “Next.” This ensures the new printer device is using the same port and printer driver as the original printer device.Įnter a name for the printer and click “Next” to continue. Select the driver your printer is already using, as shown in the printer’s properties window, and click “Next.” Select “Use an existing port.” In the drop-down box, select the port your printer is using (as shown on the Ports tab in the printer’s properties window) and click “Next.”