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From: "Angus" <
[email protected]>
Sender: "Angus" <
[email protected]>
Subject: Scripting test prints
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:27:58 -0700
Anyone have a good way of automating sending a test page
to every print queue on a given windows 2000 print server?
All
queues are LPR/tcp/ip type. All are HP printers with fixed
IP's.
I'm doing it via batch files, sending a text file to each
print queue (dos commands), at the moment and its a task
to maintain them with new printers coming in and old ones
going out I Have look after 150 printers.
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Install the Windows 2000 Resource Kit and check out prnadmin.doc:
PrnAdmin consists of sever COM objects residing in PrnAdmin.dll. The
program must be installed using the following command: regsvr32
[Path]PrnAdmin.dll.
This Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit tool can do the following:
- Adding/deleting printers without UI (local or remote)
- Adding/deleting printer connections
- Adding/deleting forms (local or remote)
- Adding/deleting ports (standard local ports, TCP LPR/RAW ports) (local or
remote)
- Adding/deleting drivers without UI (remote or local)
- Enumerating ports, drivers, printers, forms (remote or local)
- Printer control (pause, resume, purge) (local or remote)
- Printer configuration (share, rename, RAW only, and so on) (local or
remote)
It can also print test pages to specified printers. It'll take a little bit
of figuring out to enumerate all the printers and the print test pages to
them, but it's do-able.
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