printer: create

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create (register) a printer with the Universal Print service. This is a long-running operation and as such, it returns a printerCreateOperation that can be used to track and verify the registration of the printer.

For help creating the required Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for creating printer, see the CSR generation code sample.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Printer.Create	Printer.FullControl.All, Printer.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /print/printers/create

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Parameter	Type	Description	Required?
displayName	String	The display name to assign to the printer.	Yes
manufacturer	String	The manufacturer of the printer.	Yes
model	String	The model of the printer.	Yes
physicalDeviceId	String	The physical device UUID of the printer. Required if the hasPhysicalDevice property is true.	No
hasPhysicalDevice	Boolean	True if the printer has physical output device, false otherwise. If omitted, the default value is true.	No
certificateSigningRequest	printCertificateSigningRequest	The X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the certificate created and used by the printer to identify itself.	Yes
connectorId	String	ID of the connector acting as proxy to the printer.	No

Response

If successful, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code and a link to the associated printerCreateOperation in the Operation-Location header.

You make a GET request to the linked URL to get the status of an ongoing printer registration. After printer registration has completed successfully, a GET request to the linked URL will contain the created printer object and registered certificate.

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/printers/create
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Test Printer",
  "manufacturer": "Test Printer Manufacturer",
  "model": "Test Printer Model",
  "physicalDeviceId": null,
  "hasPhysicalDevice": false,
  "certificateSigningRequest": { 
    "content": "{content}",
    "transportKey": "{sampleTransportKey}"
  },
  "connectorId": null
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Print.Printers.Create;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new CreatePostRequestBody
{
	DisplayName = "Test Printer",
	Manufacturer = "Test Printer Manufacturer",
	Model = "Test Printer Model",
	PhysicalDeviceId = null,
	HasPhysicalDevice = false,
	CertificateSigningRequest = new PrintCertificateSigningRequest
	{
		Content = "{content}",
		TransportKey = "{sampleTransportKey}",
	},
	ConnectorId = null,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Print.Printers.Create.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc print printers create post --body '{\
  "displayName": "Test Printer",\
  "manufacturer": "Test Printer Manufacturer",\
  "model": "Test Printer Model",\
  "physicalDeviceId": null,\
  "hasPhysicalDevice": false,\
  "certificateSigningRequest": { \
    "content": "{content}",\
    "transportKey": "{sampleTransportKey}"\
  },\
  "connectorId": null\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphprint "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/print"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphprint.NewCreatePostRequestBody()
displayName := "Test Printer"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
manufacturer := "Test Printer Manufacturer"
requestBody.SetManufacturer(&manufacturer) 
model := "Test Printer Model"
requestBody.SetModel(&model) 
physicalDeviceId := null
requestBody.SetPhysicalDeviceId(&physicalDeviceId) 
hasPhysicalDevice := false
requestBody.SetHasPhysicalDevice(&hasPhysicalDevice) 
certificateSigningRequest := graphmodels.NewPrintCertificateSigningRequest()
content := "{content}"
certificateSigningRequest.SetContent(&content) 
transportKey := "{sampleTransportKey}"
certificateSigningRequest.SetTransportKey(&transportKey) 
requestBody.SetCertificateSigningRequest(certificateSigningRequest)
connectorId := null
requestBody.SetConnectorId(&connectorId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Print().Printers().Create().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.print.printers.create.CreatePostRequestBody createPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.print.printers.create.CreatePostRequestBody();
createPostRequestBody.setDisplayName("Test Printer");
createPostRequestBody.setManufacturer("Test Printer Manufacturer");
createPostRequestBody.setModel("Test Printer Model");
createPostRequestBody.setPhysicalDeviceId(null);
createPostRequestBody.setHasPhysicalDevice(false);
PrintCertificateSigningRequest certificateSigningRequest = new PrintCertificateSigningRequest();
certificateSigningRequest.setContent("{content}");
certificateSigningRequest.setTransportKey("{sampleTransportKey}");
createPostRequestBody.setCertificateSigningRequest(certificateSigningRequest);
createPostRequestBody.setConnectorId(null);
graphClient.print().printers().create().post(createPostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const create = {
  displayName: 'Test Printer',
  manufacturer: 'Test Printer Manufacturer',
  model: 'Test Printer Model',
  physicalDeviceId: null,
  hasPhysicalDevice: false,
  certificateSigningRequest: { 
    content: '{content}',
    transportKey: '{sampleTransportKey}'
  },
  connectorId: null
};

await client.api('/print/printers/create')
	.post(create);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Print\Printers\Create\CreatePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\PrintCertificateSigningRequest;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new CreatePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Test Printer');
$requestBody->setManufacturer('Test Printer Manufacturer');
$requestBody->setModel('Test Printer Model');
$requestBody->setPhysicalDeviceId(null);
$requestBody->setHasPhysicalDevice(false);
$certificateSigningRequest = new PrintCertificateSigningRequest();
$certificateSigningRequest->setContent('{content}');
$certificateSigningRequest->setTransportKey('{sampleTransportKey}');
$requestBody->setCertificateSigningRequest($certificateSigningRequest);
$requestBody->setConnectorId(null);

$graphServiceClient->escapedPrint()->printers()->create()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Devices.CloudPrint

$params = @{
	displayName = "Test Printer"
	manufacturer = "Test Printer Manufacturer"
	model = "Test Printer Model"
	physicalDeviceId = $null
	hasPhysicalDevice = $false
	certificateSigningRequest = @{
		content = '{content}'
		transportKey = '{sampleTransportKey}'
	}
	connectorId = $null
}

New-MgPrintPrinter -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.print.printers.create.create_post_request_body import CreatePostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.print_certificate_signing_request import PrintCertificateSigningRequest
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CreatePostRequestBody(
	display_name = "Test Printer",
	manufacturer = "Test Printer Manufacturer",
	model = "Test Printer Model",
	physical_device_id = None,
	has_physical_device = False,
	certificate_signing_request = PrintCertificateSigningRequest(
		content = "{content}",
		transport_key = "{sampleTransportKey}",
	),
	connector_id = None,
)

await graph_client.print.printers.create.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Operation-Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/operations/f221760a-52e8-4c11-b8c5-5dfaef3a49db
Retry-After: 5