add printers using command prompt

[phreaqe]

IS there a way to launch the add printers dialog from the command prompt? the closest i have come is prnmngr.vbs which allows you to add printers using completely the command line. that would suck. i just want to be able to launch the add printers thing. Anyone know of a way?
-Mark

 

[phreaqe]

nevermind. i had been searching for over an hour and didnt find anything. As soon as i posted this i found a way to do it.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: phreaqe
nevermind. i had been searching for over an hour and didnt find anything. As soon as i posted this i found a way to do it.

Can you post the solution? This helps when others do a search for a similar question. 🙂

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: phreaqe
nevermind. i had been searching for over an hour and didnt find anything. As soon as i posted this i found a way to do it.

Can you post the solution? This helps when others do a search for a similar question. 🙂

I'm not sure exactly what he was trying to do, but if you're looking to add a network printer you can use this command:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server\printer

 

[Robor]

Sounds like he's just trying to launch the 'Add Printer' wizard from the command line. A quick search turned up this:

rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il

It worked. 🙂

 

[phreaqe]

Originally posted by: Robor
Sounds like he's just trying to launch the 'Add Printer' wizard from the command line. A quick search turned up this:

rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il

It worked. 🙂

thats the exact thing i ended up using. what did you search for to get it so quickly(i must suck at the google). i spent about and hour looking for a command like that.

 

[bigi]

This is great. I once looked for it, but didn't find anything good. Now, this works well!!!

Thanks