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Sean Bryant CL
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February 18, 2026
Question

Print defaults to multiple copies ONLY THE FIRST TIME

  • February 18, 2026
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One of my users has a printing problem: Very first time printing after opening Acrobat Reader, print window defaults to 11 copies. If she exits print then immediately prints again, copies is set to 1, until she closes Acrobat Reader. Doesn’t matter if she opens Acrobat then a PDF, or opens PDF which causes Reader to open. This happened with at least five different PDF files generated from different sources.

If she opens a PDF while holding <Shift>+<Ctrl>, the print defaults to 1 copy… until she closes Acrobat.

She should not have to hold <Shift>+<Ctrl> every time she wants to open Acrobat or a PDF, especially since at least one process she does automatically generates and opens a PDF.

Anyone know how to get the FIRST print to stop defaulting to 11 copies?

    2 replies

    kglad
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    Community Expert
    February 18, 2026
    John T Smith
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    February 18, 2026

    You should ask this in the Reader forum

    Start here https://community.adobe.com/community and find the correct forum for your question