How to change default printing dpi – Apple Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/26
Somehow the default dpi setting on my ARM MacBook Pro was 300dpi.
This caused all the specific printer settings saves (mostly permutations of N-up and single/double-sided) to have become 300dpi. Fine for scalable output (vector graphics and fonts), but awful for bitmap images.
[Wayback/Archive] How to change default printing dpi – Apple Community explains how to set the default:
- Print something to bring up the print dialog box.
- Make sure the Presets menu shows “Standard”.
- Change the dpi.
- Now from the Presets menu, choose “Save”.
- That should change the “Standard” settings.
But it fails to explain that the default is not retroactively applied to saved settings.
Unlike “Styles” in most word processors, a saved setting is not the delta of it to the default setting, but the full setting combination.
This means that after applying new defaults, you will have to re-apply those to any saved setting.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] macos switch printer default to 600dpi at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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