December 26, 2007 05:26 PM

Making PowerShell's Out-Printer Cmdlet Easier to Use

How to obtain the printer names that Out-Printer needs
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Alex K. Angelopoulos
Windows IT Pro
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If you read the Windows PowerShell documentation for the Out-Printer cmdlet, you'll learn that to send output to a nondefault printer, you need to specify the printer's name. However, the documentation doesn't tell you how to find that name. Here are several ways you can obtain printer names and make them available to your PowerShell code with no copying and pasting and minimal typing.
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