suthers Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Hi All. This was written for use in a school network environment. We have about 15 printers on site. Most classrooms need only the printer in that room, but the staff laptops need every printer in the school due to their mobility, and various other PC's need something inbetween. With this script you place copies of all your printer drivers in one network location. Then run the script on each PC, selecting all printers, a specified group of printers, or just one printer for installation. From there it's completely hands off - even if you want 15 printers done. The PC has to be able to see a given network printer at installation time to install it. All the details required are stored in an INF file, so no modification of the script is required during use. We keep it as a compiled EXE. {The forum would not accept the .ini as an upload, so it is renamed .txt . Restore the .ini extension before trying to use it, or modify the script to look for a .txt file.} Hopefully it will be useful to someone else! Shalom Billprinterinstall.au3printerinstall.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thatsgreat2345 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 looks pretty nice , :-/ bad my school uses macs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spelk Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Hopefully it will be useful to someone else!ShalomBillThis was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for submitting this script, it has helped me overcome a lengthy printer installation routine.Kudos to you, Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkdt Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Thanks as well from this newbie, Bill. I will most definitely make use of this in our elementary school environment. You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman and we thank you. "No peace for the wicked, no rest for the good." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suthers Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 New Version!Find attached a new version changes ->MUCH fasterMUCH easier to use with new GUISet default printer Send test page to default printerAbility to view all details on given printer in INI fileAutomatically open INI file in notepad for on-the-fly changesLots of internal consistancy checks performed silently on the INI file on each startup with notification of any problemsThe INI file format is the same as previously. The only changes necessary to the contents are to reduce the 'PauseTime=45' key to 'PauseTime=4' to take advantage of the faster processing. The ScriptID key can be removed from the [Global] section if you wish - this information has been moved to the script itself.As part of achieving the speed enhancements, the script is split into two parts. They should reside in the same DIR. Just run the main one 'printerinstall'. It launches and kills the 'printerinstallsubapp' one as required. Both are intended to be used as compiled .exe's. To use it, there should be these file in one dirprinterinstall.exeprinterinstallsubapp.exeprinterinstall.iniHave fun everyone!ShalomBPS See first post in this thread for a sample INI file (as a TXT as couldn't upload a .ini)printerinstall.au3printerinstallsubapp.au3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkdt Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 MUCH thanks, and appreciated. "No peace for the wicked, no rest for the good." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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