Somebody got the idea that printing dialog (at least in evince) should remember their settings. This is incredibly annoying. I am being bit by this at least once a week. I print a lot of documents. I print certain page ranges often, I switch what resolution I want to use. If I want to print pages 50-55 at 1200dpi single sided, that almost certainly means I will NOT want to ever do that again. Next time, I will most likely want to print different pages, perhaps at different resolution. Or most likely I will want to print that document with default settings.

Why can't the printing dialog ALWAYS start at the defaults. If it saves settings it should be only in response to some user action.

What is the use case where this is useful. As far as I can tell it is only annoying. I have to look through ALL tabs just to make sure that everything is set back to the defaults. If I want to quickly print something because I have little time usually results in getting 8 copies of page 50-55 spitting out at the printer that's 2 stories up and I'll figure that out only once I've gone up the stairs.

Also, if I print something with nonstandard settings, I then can't figure out how to make sure the settings DO NOT get remembered. Do I have to print the document again? I have to say this is one of my main points of frustration with Ubuntu (and Fedora which does the same because it's evince doing it).

I considered filing this as a bug, but this seems more appropriate. Obviously evince works as the author intended, it just doesn't work as a user would think it works.