How to find name of default printer

[ColinGregory]

Hi everyone

Sorry - don't know anything at all about W2K. Is there a command or something I could use to find the name of the printer set as default on a users PC.

Thanks in advance
Colin

 

[electronicsfreak]

Go to control panel, then printers. It will show in there which one is default.

 

[ColinGregory]

Hi electronicsfreak

I just knew that I would mess up the question . . .

More details

I'm writing a subroutine in an application (LabWare LIMS)which has its own language (LIMS Basic). What I need to do is check that the default printer is a colour printer. There is no command in LIMS Basic to find the name of the default printer but there is a command which will execute a windows command line. I was hoping to fire off something which would tell me the printer name.

Thanks for taking the time
Colin

 

[tuco7]

Colin

Go to Start, Settings, select Printers it will list the printers that are on your system.
Select the printer your are looking for and right click on it it will open a list of options, set to default printer is one of the options you are looking for.

 

[wolluf]

Is

http://www.ss64.com/nt/prnmngr.html

any use?

 

[ColinGregory]

Thanks tuco7 and wolluf

prnmngr is exactly the sort of thing I was after. However, it doesn't appear to run on W2K.

At the prompt I've been typing in "prnmngr -g" (quotes omitted) and getting "prnmngr not recognized as an internal or external command".

Am I just rubbish at typing or is there a similar sort of command for W2K?

 

[wolluf]

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=246772

might ve useful (also have you looked around the rest of that SS64 site - that's where I got this link from)

 

[bcastner]

Wolluf has the right idea.
prnmgr is a vb script, and will work under Win2k as well as XP.

Copy it from an XP machine.