Deploying Printers and Print Drivers Remotely

re: Deploying Printers and Print Drivers Remotely

TJ — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:52:39 GMT

Will this work also for scanner drivers?

re: Deploying Printers and Print Drivers Remotely

Mhanks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:28:06 GMT

Print via remote desktop with TSPrint from TerminalWorks.com

re: Deploying Printers and Print Drivers Remotely

Striker — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:59:12 GMT

OK, so that work with inbox drivers. Here's my scenario:

Install a network printer which uses a driver which is not part of the inbox selection that comes with the o/s. This works like a charm using the /in switch.

Then install a local printer using the very same driver by passing the /u switch.

Here's the problem. As of Vista and Win7, printui only seems to "see" inbox drivers. Any drivers you add later are not available to use. For example the following works under XP but fails under Vista and Win7.

Assume I've already install a network printer that uses the SHARP AR-P450 PCL6 driver.

Now I want to install a local printer which uses that driver.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /K /b "Legacy Printer" /f c:\windows\inf\ntprint.inf /r lpt2: /m "SHARP AR-P450 PCL6"

Fail. Put a /w on the end and you'll see that printui can't find the SHARP AR-P450 PCL6 driver at all.

So, how do we get around this? As I said we've been using this for ages on XP and now in Vista and more importantly Win7 it fails.

re: Deploying Printers and Print Drivers Remotely

Vadym — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:33 GMT

Guys, thanks, that helps a lot!

@brian

prnport -a -s <computername> -r IP_172.24.96.139 -h 172.24.96.139 -o raw -n 9100 -me -y public -i 1

psexec \\<computername> -u %usr% -p %pwd% cmd.exe /c rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /m "HP LaserJet 4350 PCL 6" /b "CWP3025 - HP LaserJet 4350 PCL 6" /n "CWP3025 - HP LaserJet 4350 PCL 6" /f <path_to_inf>\4350PCl.inf /u /r "IP_172.24.96.139" /z /Y /q

re: Deploying Printers and Print Drivers Remotely

brian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:45:43 GMT

No support for CREATING a port!