' ============================================================
' GetPrinterReportToFile.vbs
'
' Reports Printers via WMI (Win32_Printer) and writes the results to a
' timestamped text file next to this script.
'
' Usage: cscript GetPrinterReportToFile.vbs
' ============================================================

Option Explicit

Dim objWMIService, colItems, objItem
Dim objFSO, objFile, strOutPath, itemCount

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT Name, DriverName, PortName, PrinterStatus FROM Win32_Printer")

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strOutPath = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName) & "\printer-report_" & _
             Replace(FormatDateTime(Now, 2), "/", "-") & ".txt"
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strOutPath, True)

itemCount = 0
For Each objItem In colItems
        objFile.WriteLine "Name: " & objItem.Name
        objFile.WriteLine "DriverName: " & objItem.DriverName
        objFile.WriteLine "PortName: " & objItem.PortName
        objFile.WriteLine "PrinterStatus: " & objItem.PrinterStatus
        objFile.WriteLine String(40, "-")
        itemCount = itemCount + 1
Next

objFile.Close

WScript.Echo itemCount & " Printers written to: " & strOutPath