On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:12:58 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:
The defaults for a given Printere are set in Devices and Printers.
Most applications inherit the default settings for a given printer but are
overriden in a Print Job.

FWIW, Acrobat Reader is a fairly widely used application which stores
it's own last used settings.