As someone who has networked copiers serving as printers, the Quick Print function was great. I could use print one copy to my desk printer and use the network copier for bigger jobs. That was until Microsoft Office 10. Suddenly Quick Print was not efficient or helpful. Quick Print, despite the setting for 1 copy, remembers the last thing you printed and prints that. So if I just printed 25 copies to our color copier, then Quick Print is going to give me 25 color copies, even though my desk printer is set as the default and it's set one copy. This has apparently been a problem for years and Microsoft just ignores the problem because after an extensive search I have yet to find anyone who has a solution that has worked. Has anyone found the answer yet? I would appreciate sharing if you have. Thank you.

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that the number of copies does not reset after using quick printing.

Am I right? If yes, this is a known issue of Office 2010. We might try the three workaround:

1) Remove the Quick Print icon, close Word, and then reopen it. No reboot is necessary.

2) To change the quick print default in Office 2010, do the following: Go to the following location:

File /Print/Page setup/Options/Advanced/Copy Count. 

3) Using a short macro : 

Sub QuickPrint1()
'
' QuickPrint1 Macro
'
'
    ActiveDocument.PrintOut Copies:=1
       
End Sub

Then, I just make a new icon in the Quick Launch for it...

Also, please note that teaching users to use CTRL-P is a much efficient way of printing in almost all programs.

Hope it's helpful.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support