From the KB article:
"When you send a Microsoft Excel workbook to another user account in an e-mail message or store the file on a network share, with the print settings set to print to your mailbox or to a local printer with specialized settings, these settings may still be in effect for the other users. If they print the workbook, it may either print to your mailbox, not theirs, or it may try to print by using certain settings for your local printer."
I have several users who occasionally experience this exact issue with Excel 2010. A KB article actually exists for this problem (KB:829766) and at one point a hotfix was available. I assume this issue was "fixed" at one point however the KB article was updated in April with
Article ID: 829766 - Last Review: April 27, 2012 - Revision: 2.0
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- Microsoft Excel 2010
So it appears that it's acknowledged to be happening in Excel 2010 but the hotfix was pulled. Does anybody have any idea about how to fix this issue without the hotfix? I tried the registry entry that was mentioned in the KB article but it did not resolve the issue. Is there any other way to get Excel 2010 to ignore printer specific metadata? We do not want to have to deploy a VB script to remove this information on each sheet.