Printer Deployment does not install driver but port
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@x23piracy It uses the printUI.DLL
The code looks like
PrintUI($"/if /q /b \"{printer.Name}\" /f \"{printer.File}\" /r \"{printer.Port}\" /m \"{printer.Model}\"")
The command line to try it yourself manually looks likeRUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /if /q /b "Printer Name" /f "path\ot\inf" /r "Printer Port Name" /m "Printer Model referenced in INF"You may want to take out the /q so you get error messages.Personally I use the following script template for each of my network printers on my base image and then remove them and use the C:\Windows\INF\oem#.inf file that gets created for each printer. You just have to watch and document which oem#.inf the pnputil adds the driver too.
::----------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Script Name: InstallPrinters :: Original Author: jfullmer :: Created Date: 2016-02-18 16:39:19 :: Last Updated Date: 2016-03-16 10:01:27 :: Update Author: jfullmer :: Version: 2.0 ::----------------------------------------------------------------------------- @ECHO off call :main exit :main REM Function to call other functions and run the installation process call :setVars call :funcHead "Welcome to the Printer installer!" REM inputs: 1 - Printer Port Name, 2 - printer ip or hostname 3- driverPath 4 - printer name 5 - printer model 6 - config file 7 - raw or lpr call :installPrinter %portName% %hostname% "%inf%" "%printerName%" "%printerModel%" "%config%" %portType% EXIT /B :setVars REM function for setting script variables, typically for directories :: Set input names in the set commands, should be easier this way :: Avoid using quotes in variable definitions, enclose the calls to variables in quotes instead call :funcHead "Setting script variables" set share=\\path\to\drivers\share set portName= set hostname= set inf=%share%\ set printerName= set printerModel= set config=%share%\ set portType=raw echo. mounting share... net use "%share%" echo. done! EXIT /B :installPrinter REM Function to add a new Printer REM inputs: 1 - Printer Port Name, 2 - printer ip or hostname 3- driverPath 4 - printer name 5 - printer model 6 - config file 7 - raw or lpr call :funcHead "Installing Printer %~4" call :printerPort %~1 %~2 %~7 call :printerDriver "%~3" call :addPrinter "%~4" "%~5" %~1 call :configPrinter "%~6" "%~4" echo. done installing printer %~4! EXIT /B :printerPort REM function for adding a printer port REM var inputs 1 - port name 2 -hostname or ip address 3 -port type (raw or lpr) call :dots echo. Creating the printer port... IF %~3==lpr ( Cscript %WINDIR%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\Prnport.vbs -a -r %~1 -h %~2 -o lpr -q lp -n 515 ) ELSE ( REM raw Cscript %WINDIR%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\Prnport.vbs -a -r %~1 -h %~2 -o raw -n 9100 ) echo. done! call :dots EXIT /B :printerDriver REM function to add the driver input 1=full driver path call :dots echo. Adding printer driver... PNPUTIL -i -a "%~1" echo. done! call :dots EXIT /B :addPrinter REM add the printer to the created port REM 1 - printer name 2 - printer model associated with driver 3 - port name call :dots echo. adding printer to network port... Cscript %WINDIR%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\Prnmngr.vbs -a -p "%~1" -m "%~2" -r %~3 echo. done! call :dots EXIT /B :configPrinter REM add any special printer configurations REM 1 - config file path 2 - printer name call :dots echo. Configuring Printer... REM To create a config file for a printer, use the following syntax REM RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /Ss /nPrinterName /a ConfigFilePath.dat m f g p RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n"%~2" /a %~1 m f g p echo. done! call :dots EXIT /B :dots REM just echoing dots in a Function instead of copy pasting them so that it's consistent echo ...................................................................... EXIT /B :funcHead REM A simple function for displaying a consistent header at the start of functions call :dots echo. %~1 call :dots EXIT /BAlso, it sounds like this is an HP printer. I’ve had some good luck using the HP universal print driver.
Within the hp universal print driver files, the inf you need is something along the lines of hpcu180u.inf With a model name of “HP Universal Printing PCL 6”(The numbers slightly change with each version of the UPD, but that’s the general structure of the file that works) But you will need all the other files from the driver in the original directory structure. In other words, you can’t just copy the inf file to the share because it will look for more files that are referenced. This is probably also the case for the model specific print driver, so if you are only putting the inf in the share, that could also be the problem.I hope that helps
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