Comment 2 for bug 179696

UPDATE: This is a problem with OpenOffice needing to be restarted (you must also exit the Quickstarter!). Open Office is unable to detect that a new default printer has been selected from System->Preferences->Default Printer while it is open (that includes while Quickstarter is running). So until you restart OpenOffice or Ubuntu, OpenOffice says it's defualt printer is the printer that was default when OpenOffice (or Quickstarter) started.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open OpenOffice or start OpenOffice Quickstart
2. notice what printer is default inside OpenOffice by going to File->Print
3. Go to System->Prefrences->Default Printer and change your default printer
4. notice what printer is default inside OpenOffice by going to File->Print
5. If you want OpenOffice to detect the changes you made to System->Preferences->Default Printer restart OpenOffice & Quickstart

Steps for Open Office to detect new default printer:
1. Set a new default printer in System->Preferences->Default Printer
2. Close any OpenOffice window
3. Exit Open Office Quickstarter
4. Open OpenOffice & see it your newly set default printer is the default printer when you press File->Print inside OpenOffice

This worked in my case (Dell Inspiron e1505, Ubuntu 7.10), make sure you post if there is additional issues I missed and/or it doesn't work!!!