Print Processor Updates for Windows Queues
A while back I wrote about a few little tools from Microsoft that allowed an easy way to create remote print queues. One of the things I didn’t realise then was that another handy tool exists (in the Server 2003 Resource Kit) called setprinter.exe that opens up a few more options.
We use a non-standard print processor at work to insert barcodes on certain output from SAP. So to set all the printers on the print server or just one to use the new print processor, we just run,
setprinter \\myserver 2 pPrintProcessor="SAP Barcode"
setprinter \\myserver\printer01 2 pPrintProcessor="SAP Barcode"
Lots of other properties can also be changed using setprinter.exe, pretty much everything other than security permissions and for that you can use another tool in the RK, subinacl.exe. To view the properties of a queue and what you can change, just cycle through the property groups 0-9 (that’s the 2 in the above commands).
for %i in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do setprinter -show \\myserver\printer01 %i
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