Checking for local USB Printer

[jgus]

We have two different model local USB printer that are used in our environment. We have both printer drivers set up on our images. Is there a way that a script can check to see which of the two printers is connected to the workstation? If I can pull that info then I can easily script to automatically set it as the default at login.

 

[markdmac]

Using WMI you can enum the printer objects and search for whichever is listed as Online.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[jgus]

The script I was looking for is below. It shows me what devices are currently connected to the USB ports. I can then see which printer is attached locally and through script automatically change the default printer to the correct printer object.

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colDevices = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * From Win32_USBControllerDevice")

For Each objDevice in colDevices
strDeviceName = objDevice.Dependent
strQuotes = Chr(34)
strDeviceName = Replace(strDeviceName, strQuotes, "")
arrDeviceNames = Split(strDeviceName, "=")
strDeviceName = arrDeviceNames(1)
Set colUSBDevices = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * From Win32_PnPEntity Where DeviceID = '" & strDeviceName & "'")
For Each objUSBDevice in colUSBDevices
Wscript.Echo objUSBDevice.Description
Next
Next

 

[mrmovie]

thanks for posting your solution, especially interesting is the link from the USB class to the PnPEntity