Hi Dave, Look in your printer properties screen for a button or tab that says something on the order of *set as default*. Click or select this after you have made your changes, and, if the gods are smiling, the changes should stick. HTH and Merry Christmas Mark Powdermaker >I've got an Epson Stylus 300 printer which has an annoying problem. >Everytime I go to print something I have to go into printer properties and >set it to Economy setting to use the save ink feature. This happens >whenever I boot up the computer and decide to print something<snip> Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html