Powershell Get-Printer

Francesco S. Tremamunno 41 Reputation points
2021-04-02T09:03:20.637+00:00

I'm wondering why, if I use in powershell the command Get-Printer I get all the printers installed on server, but if I use Get-Printer -name '008 - SRM [A06]', I get nothing.
But if I use the same command on 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer' all the details appear.
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Therefore I suppose that this error is preventing me from updating massivily the printer drivers.

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  1. Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 29,486 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-04-02T09:57:38.76+00:00

    Hi,

    You have to prepend the escape character to the square brackets. 

    Get-Printer -name '008 - SRM `[A06`]'

    Best Regards,
    Ian Xue

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  1. Francesco S. Tremamunno 41 Reputation points
    2021-04-07T06:24:44.72+00:00

    Sorry for the late reply, I've been off for some days.
    It's working.
    I can get all the information I need and update drivers as well.

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