Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:32:48 -0400, micky wrote:
My brother is hhaving trouble printing from Gmail to an HP 8030
all-in-one printer. It insists on starting the Save File routine, and
lets him print to a file but never prints to the printer!!

If a real printer is configured in the system, the print dialog should
have an option to select a printer. Don't know Windows. But in Linux
(Gnome) there is an option in this dialog to set any installed printer as
default, so with only one other click the file gets printed on what was
chosen in the future. Well, talking about Gnome here. But I suppose
that'll be similar in other distributions.

In the OS in question, this is the item that leads to surprises.

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content...9jvDfUq20b.png

On the one hand, you can place a green tick mark on what
you think is your default printer. When you tick the box
in the previous picture, the OS flaps the print dialog
around according to your last printer section (which might
not be the green-ticked printer). You might not stare up
at the printer choice, and then your print goes to the
wrong printer.

The whole thing just looks like a 12-course meal.

https://www.howtogeek.com/362534/how...in-windows-10/

It's not that any one component part is "bad", it's
that the whole thing looks like a committee did it.
Nobody looks at the whole thing and tries to simplify it.

Of all of the features on that page, one feature needs
to be discarded. Pick one. That's what the committee
should do.

Paul