{"id":4849,"date":"2019-11-21T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=4849"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:48:45","slug":"installing-a-local-printer","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/knowledge-base\/installing-a-local-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the default printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buildsoft programs (especially Diamonds, ConCrete and PowerConnect) request printer properties at start up or when being enlarged. When the communication regarding those properties is too slow, because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&rsquo;s a network printer<\/li>\n<li>the printer is not online<\/li>\n<li>Windows determines the default printer automatically (= the default setting in Windows 11)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the Buildosft programs won&rsquo;t start, will get stuck, will block, will crash or will show an error message.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to define a local printer (such as PDFCreator, Microsoft to PDF, CutePdf, &#8230;) as default printer. The workflow to do this, can be found on the Microsoft support website (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/set-a-default-printer-in-windows-e10cf8b8-e596-b102-bf84-c41022b5036f#ID0EBF=Windows_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/fr-fr\/windows\/d%C3%A9finir-une-imprimante-par-d%C3%A9faut-dans-windows-e10cf8b8-e596-b102-bf84-c41022b5036f#ID0EBF=Windows_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/nl-nl\/windows\/een-standaardprinter-instellen-in-windows-e10cf8b8-e596-b102-bf84-c41022b5036f#ID0EBF=Windows_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NL<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buildsoft programs (especially Diamonds, ConCrete and PowerConnect) request printer properties at start up or when being enlarged. When the communication regarding those properties is too slow, because: it&rsquo;s a network printer the printer is not online Windows determines the default printer automatically (= the default setting in Windows 11) the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[1249],"ht-kb-tag":[530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/4849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14995,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/4849\/revisions\/14995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}