Configuring Printers and Print Jobs

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

Both printers and print jobs expose a number of properties that can be configured by using scripts. For example, after a printer has been installed, you can use scripting to change printer properties such as Location and Priority or to schedule the hours when a printer actually processes print jobs. This allows you to dynamically manage the printing infrastructure, thus making the printing process easier for both you and your users.

You can use ADSI to change the properties of print jobs already in the print queue. These properties include such things as the job priority and the time at which the job is printed. In turn, this provides you with the ability to print specific documents as needed. For example, large documents can be rescheduled to print after hours, while important documents can be reassigned a higher priority and printed immediately, even if other documents are in the queue ahead of them.