On any edition of Windows 7, do the following: Your printer is recognized as the preferred printer for future print jobs when it has the check mark icon next to it. If you have a real printer installed, right-click its icon, and then click Set as Default Printer on the shortcut menu. When the Send to OneNote 2010 print driver is marked as shown, print jobs will be sent to OneNote as images.

Your printer software is incompatible with your operating system version and Windows has reverted to the Send to OneNote print driver as the default printer.Įven if you’re not really sure how it may have happened, there’s an easy solution.

You share your computer with someone else who installed OneNote 2010 or Office 2010 and set the Send to OneNote print driver to act as the default printer.

You installed a new physical printer on your computer after installing OneNote 2010 or Office 2010, without promoting the printer to act as your default printer.

You installed OneNote 2010 or Office 2010 with no physical printer installed or selected at the time, causing the Send to OneNote print driver to act as your default (preferred) printer.

However, the OneNote print driver may have accidentally promoted itself to top dog in any of the following conditions: Instead, it’s intended to be waiting in the wings, available whenever you want to use it, and taking a backseat again whenever you’re done sending a particular print job to OneNote. The OneNote print driver wasn’t designed to override your printer settings and assume you want every print job sent to OneNote 2010.

In the case of OneNote, a special print driver is installed that lets you send your print jobs as images into your OneNote notebooks. Typically, the operating system controls such software, so it can monitor how a computer talks to hardware devices like a printer. A print driver is a small piece of software that directs output from a computer to a printer. Microsoft OneNote comes with a nifty little utility called the Send to OneNote print driver. You really want things to go back to the way things were and have your print jobs sent to your actual printer once again. Now, your print jobs seem to suddenly bypass your printer completely and go straight into Microsoft OneNote, where they appear like scanned images. Until recently, you’ve always been able to print anything from your computer to your printer.

I hate the new onenote update