I recently had to replace a defective printer with a similar model, but different enough to need a new driver. This meant it would have a new name on the print server, and I had to figure out a way to replace the installed printer on each computer quickly. After some searching, I ended up with the following script:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | @echo off set OLDPRINTER="\\printserver\Xerox Phaser 8560N" set NEWPRINTER="\\printserver\Xerox Phaser 8560DN PS" rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /q /dn /n%OLDPRINTER% rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n%NEWPRINTER% /q rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n%NEWPRINTER% |
The first rundll32 line quietly (/q) deletes (/dn) the printer named (/n) %OLDPRINTER%, while the second line installs (/in) the new printer %NEWPRINTER%, and the final line sets the new printer as default (/y)
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