Add Printers to a PC

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Requirement is to Search and Add available printers on the remote PCs programmatically.

In case of a new PC I need to get a list of available/connected printers and allow the user to add them, basically doing the "Add printer" functionality from the Printers & Scanners window.

Is there a way to identify what printers I have available which then can be added to the PC.

I have come across AddPrinter command in PowerShell and WMI(C#) which basically adds a new PrintQueue to the PC. I am thinking this will need a physical printer connected to the PC as a prerequisite.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you want to do the same thing as Windows does, you could launch the same command.
Like (with default parameters) :

                using (Process exeProcess = new Process())
                {                   
                    exeProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "rundll32";
                    exeProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = @"printui.dll, PrintUIEntryDPIAware /il";
                    exeProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
                    exeProcess.Start();
                }

Answer 2

@ROHAN , about how to get a list of available/connected printers, you could refer to the following link:

List Network/locak Printers on Remote PC

The following link describes that how do you connect to the remote printer.
How to connect C# with Remote printer

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