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PowerShell – Get Printer IP address and Port, Model information

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

Using PowerShell, Get-Printer cmdlet, printer ip address, printer status can be easily retrieved.

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

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1 Get Printer IP address and name
2 Get Printer Location and status
3 Using Get-WmiObject to get Printer PortName,Status
4 Conclusion

Get Printer IP address and name

To get printer ip address, name using PowerShell, use below command

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

In the above example, PowerShell Get-Printer command gets printer name, printer portname or printer IP address and driver name available on computer and using Export-Csv, export information to printers.csv file on D drive.

Do you know: How to get printer properties in 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 printer name, printer location and get printer status, and display printer information in the format list.

Using Get-WmiObject to get Printer PortName,Status

Using 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, Get-WmiObject cmdlet gets printers list installed on specified computername (local machine or remote machine) and get printer ip address, printer location in grid view format.

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Conclusion

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

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