What Happened to Printing?

After the latest large update I am on 22621.

Printing has changed.

I print a lot of labels and they reach me in the form of a jpg. I usually have to manually set the height of the jpg to 15cm and I would do this in the pop-up print page.

The print popup now seems to have changed though, and is a standard windows 11 thing, but nolonger contains most of the old options, including the ability to edit the print dimensions.

It also doesn't show a preview either. It used to.

Good old Microsoft breaking stuff that was just fine.

Does anyone know how I can do what I need to do? Or perhaps suggest another app that is better than Windows 11?

I don't have a printer, so I can't even pull up this screen, but I would check to see if the things in the YELLOW boxes
have anything to do with your issue.

I checked mine and seems nothing has changed with Printing. This is a .pdf file in Adobe Acrobat Reader:

Try scrolling down to 'more settings'. I have an HP printer it opens HP Smart.

Thank you for the replies.

I have tried all of the options on the print popup and nothing helps. I guess, unfortunately, this is down to the app I am using, it must have use the windows default which doesn't have any fine settings now. When I click on advanced it goes to a screen that I think is part of the printer driver, and for my printer it doesn't give me the ability to set the tabs and print size.

I am not sure what the way forward is. I guess I need a new application that doesn't use the windows dumbed down print interface.

I do wish Microsoft would stop removing functionality.

I noticed it shows 'Printing from Win32 application - Print'.
If you have a folder with you images in - try printing an image directly from the folder (right click) rather than the app you use.

Fabler2 said:

I noticed it shows 'Printing from Win32 application - Print'.
If you have a folder with you images in - try printing an image directly from the folder (right click) rather than the app you use.

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It's interesting that you brought that up. I noticed it too. The funny thing is that it SHOULD be a 64bit app but for reasons unknown it elected to install 32bit during the install process. I will look in to that and report back.

Right click on the image then "print" and a completely different window pops up. It does have a few more options than the one above, which at least offers some improvement. Alas I can't seem to set the tabs but apart from that it's at least an improvement!

I found it!!

Pocah said:

I found it!!

Restore the Legacy Print Dialog in Windows 11 22H2

In Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has replaced the legacy Print Dialog for all classic (win32) apps, e.g., Notepad, WordPad, Notepad++, etc., with a new dialog. Earlier, this dialog was available only for…

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Nice find.

Pocah said:

I found it!!

Restore the Legacy Print Dialog in Windows 11 22H2

In Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has replaced the legacy Print Dialog for all classic (win32) apps, e.g., Notepad, WordPad, Notepad++, etc., with a new dialog. Earlier, this dialog was available only for…

www.winhelponline.com

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This just saved me a mess. Broke printing on multiple machines. I was deleting the entire domain profile and setting them back up from scratch.