PowerShell – Get Printer IP address and Port, Model information

In this article, I will explain how to get printer IP address and other printer properties like Portname, model, driver name, and printer status in PowerShell.

Using PowerShell, the Get-Printer cmdlet, printer IP address, and printer status can be easily retrieved. The PortName contains the printer’s IP address.

Let’s understand using the Get-Printer cmdlet with different examples to get a printer IP address, printer status, and printer location.

PowerShell Get Printer IP Address and Name

To get the printer IP address, and name using PowerShell, use the Get-Printer command.

Get-Printer | select Name,PortName,DriverName | Export-Csv D:\Printers.csv -NoTypeInformation

In the above example, the PowerShell Get-Printer command list all the printer on the computer and pipes the result to the Select command. The Select command selects the properties such as Name, PortName, and DriverName. Lastly, the printer IP address and name are sent to the Export-CSV cmdlet to export information to the printers.csv file on the D drive.

The output of the above PowerShell script gets the printer’s IP address and name.

PS D:\> Get-Printer | select Name,PortName,DriverName                                                                                             
Name                                            PortName
----                                            --------
\\incorp-eu-01\Printer_HP 127.0.0.1_4,127.0.0.1_5,127.0.0.1_6,127.0.0.1_7
\\incorp-eu-02\Printer_HP  10.229.18.19

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PowerShell Get Printer Location and status

To get printer location and status using PowerShell, use the below command

Get-Printer | Select Name,Location,PrinterStatus | Out-GridView

In the above example, using Get-Printer, it retrieved the printer name, printer location, and the printer status, and displayed printer information in the format list.

Using Get-WmiObject to get Printer PortName, Status

Using the PowerShell Get-WmiObject cmdlet with class win32_printer, it gets printer status, printer location, and printer portname.

Get-WmiObject -class win32_printer -ComputerName CORP-IN-18 | Select Caption,Location,PortName,DriverName,PrinterStatus | Out-GridView

In the above example, the Get-WmiObject cmdlet gets printer list installed on a specified computername (local machine or remote machine) and gets the printer IP address, and printer location in grid view format.

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Conclusion

I hope the above article about how to get printer IP address and printer status, other printer information can be easily retrieved using the Get-Printer cmdlet in PowerShell.

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