{"id":4227,"date":"2013-02-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/01\/powertip-use-powershell-to-add-printers-to-windows-server-2012\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-add-printers-to-windows-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-add-printers-to-windows-server-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Add Printers to Windows Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell function to add a printer to your server running Windows Server&nbsp;2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How do I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to add a printer to my print server running Windows Server&nbsp;2012?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Add-Printer<\/strong>&nbsp;function. Specify the name of an existing print driver and an existing printer port. The following illustrates this technique:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Add-Printer -Name &#8220;My 9pin&#8221; -DriverName &#8220;Generic IBM Graphics 9pin&#8221; -PortName &#8220;LPT1:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell function to add a printer to your server running Windows Server&nbsp;2012. &nbsp;How do I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to add a printer to my print server running Windows Server&nbsp;2012? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Add-Printer&nbsp;function. Specify the name of an existing print driver and an existing printer port. The following illustrates this technique: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell function to add a printer to your server running Windows Server&nbsp;2012. &nbsp;How do I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 to add a printer to my print server running Windows Server&nbsp;2012? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Add-Printer&nbsp;function. Specify the name of an existing print driver and an existing printer port. The following illustrates this technique: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}