Does anybody know how...

[R00k]

to enumerate and/or print out a list of all locally installed printers on a Windows2000 machine?

I am pulling my hair out trying to find a way to simply get a list of printers with their model names and either the description or location field in the list as well.

If I can get it to a spreadsheet, a plain text file, anything, I can work with it.

This seems like it should be the simplest thing in the world, but Printers is a special folder, so you can't get to it from a cmd prompt and pipe out a directory list, and I can't even figure out a way to do it with a VBScript.

If anybody has any idea how to do this, please let me know because I am extremely frustrated and would like to go home tonight.

Thanks.

[FragaGeddon]

Can't you just run around the office and see what printers people have?

[shadd_]

system information?

[Dr_Watson]

start | run | msinfo32
open Components | printing
highlight | copy | paste into notepad

[R00k]

system information?

start | run | msinfo32
open Components | printing
highlight | copy | paste into notepad

It doesn't list Location or Description. =\

[R00k]

Can't you just run around the office and see what printers people have?

lol, I would, but there are 98 of them on just one of my print servers.

[FragaGeddon]

Then you better get busy. j/k
How many print servers are there?

[shadd_]

Can't you just run around the office and see what printers people have?

lol, I would, but there are 98 of them on just one of my print servers.

pfft, 98, big deal.

[R00k]

Then you better get busy. j/k
How many print servers are there?

Just 2 of them. And a lot of the printers are duplicated on each server, so I need to import it all into an Excel spreadsheet or something, so I can weed out the duplicate entries.

[PhoeniX]

Maybe something like this?

in cmd:

cd c:\windows\system32
CScript prnmngr.vbs -l > c:\printeroutput.txt

[Dr_Watson]

thats pretty slick phoenix.

[R00k]

But where do you get prnmngr.vbs?

[PhoeniX]

Included with windows here

[PhoeniX]

http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/l0TBFI20.html

[R00k]

Windows 2000?

I'm searching C:\ for it now, but it's not in Winnt or System32.

[Dr_Watson]

xp has it... just checked the 2k box here... no dice.

[R00k]

Pho, you're my hero.

Now I just gotta figure out how to weed out all the other info it puts in there.

Thanks a bunch man, I'll PM you later with your cookie. :icon14:

[PhoeniX]

np.

If this was *nix you could write a simple script to parse out all the crap you don't need. What bits do you actually want to save for each printer?

[R00k]

It outputs this:

Server name
Printer name \\nas-sysprt01\prt0807
Share name prt0807
Driver name HP LaserJet 4Si
Port name prt0807-10.13.17.236
Location Customer Service
Print processor WinPrint
Data type RAW
Attributes 2584
Default priority 0
Status Unknown
Average pages per minute 0

But all I really need is the 3rd, 4th and 6th line:

Share name prt0807
Driver name HP LaserJet 4Si
Location Customer Service

I'm going to try parsing it with a vb script using regexp's, but it's likely to take me a little bit because it's been a while since I've messed with them.

[PhoeniX]

http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/n7HcAq82.html


Save as r00k.vbs or whatever and alter the thing i posted above to use this vbs instead.


Open source (well, kind of, but we got the source to output all that stuff) rocks as it saved loads of time :E.




(p.s. obligatory format c: /q/s incuded)

[Guest]

to enumerate and/or print out a list of all locally installed printers on a Windows2000 machine?

I am pulling my hair out trying to find a way to simply get a list of printers with their model names and either the description or location field in the list as well.

If I can get it to a spreadsheet, a plain text file, anything, I can work with it.

This seems like it should be the simplest thing in the world, but Printers is a special folder, so you can't get to it from a cmd prompt and pipe out a directory list, and I can't even figure out a way to do it with a VBScript.

If anybody has any idea how to do this, please let me know because I am extremely frustrated and would like to go home tonight.

Thanks.

It happened to me . in fact it's not fixed yet.
Close completly your Pc and when it start again it will show you something like << a program printing is ready>>
I have this problem with a Lexmark for nearly 2 years.
Good luck!

[andyman]

lmfao. completely.

[R00k]

http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/n7HcAq82.html


Save as r00k.vbs or whatever and alter the thing i posted above to use this vbs instead.


Open source (well, kind of, but we got the source to output all that stuff) rocks as it saved loads of time :E.




(p.s. obligatory format c: /q/s incuded)

Dude, thanks a ton, you have no idea how much time you saved me. *kiss*

I changed it a little more, so it just prints one line for each printer, with tabs between the three fields I need, so I can import it into Excel and label the columns.

Do you have any idea why it regularly throws out this:

Code: Select all

Start time 00h00
Until time 00h00

?

That's no biggie at all - easily edited - just curious.

The script takes probably 10-15 seconds to run on my PC, with only 32 printers. About to run it on the server and see how long it takes.

:icon14:

[PhoeniX]

glad it works.


Guessing the start / until time may be to do with queues or something? the two echos for that are below the lines where it outputs most of the other text stuff.

[R00k]

Hmm, when I ran it on the server I got a lot more of those messages.
They're easy to weed out with a data sort in Excel, but I'm kinda curious what they are.

At any rate, just ran it, cleaned it, imported it, saved it and I'm going home. Cheers. :icon14: