📜 VBScript (WSH)
Get Printers Report to File (VBScript)
Queries Win32_Printer via WMI and writes Printers to a timestamped text file, handy for scheduled logon/logoff scripts.
GetPrinterReportToFile.vbs
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' GetPrinterReportToFile.vbs
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' Reports Printers via WMI (Win32_Printer) and writes the results to a
' timestamped text file next to this script.
'
' Usage: cscript GetPrinterReportToFile.vbs
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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