{"id":236,"date":"2020-10-01T22:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2022-06-03T20:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:08:38","slug":"setting-the-default-printer-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/01\/setting-the-default-printer-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Default printer Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bbnum\">1<\/span>\u00a0Open a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenforums.com\/tutorials\/3288-open-command-prompt-windows-10-a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>command prompt<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"anchor\" name=\"option4s2\"><\/a><span class=\"bbnum\">2<\/span>\u00a0Copy and paste the\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default cs1\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:435px;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">wmic printer get name,default<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0command into the command prompt, and press\u00a0Enter. Make note of the printer name (ex: &#8220;HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477 PCL 6&#8221;) you want to set as the default printer. (see screenshot below)<\/p>\n<p class=\"n2\">The currently set default printer will have\u00a0<b>TRUE<\/b>\u00a0showing in the\u00a0<b>Default<\/b>\u00a0column to the left of the printer name.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/printer-300x128-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"bbnum\">3<\/span> Type the command below into the command prompt, and press\u00a0Enter.<\/p>\n<p><b>For example:<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default cs1\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:435px;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">wmic printer where name=&quot;HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477 PCL 6&quot; call setdefaultprinter<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4 You can also type in the following command<\/p>\n<p>cscript &#8220;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Printing_Admin_Scripts\\en-US\\prnmngr.vbs&#8221; -ac -t -p &#8220;\\\\10.0.1.11\\Clives Office&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The -t sets the default printer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ss64.com\/nt\/prnmngr.html\">https:\/\/ss64.com\/nt\/prnmngr.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\u00a0Open a\u00a0command prompt. 2\u00a0Copy and paste the\u00a0 wmic printer get name,default \u00a0command into the command prompt, and press\u00a0Enter. Make note of the printer name (ex: &#8220;HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477 PCL 6&#8221;) you want to set as the default printer. (see screenshot below) The currently set default printer will have\u00a0TRUE\u00a0showing in the\u00a0Default\u00a0column to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}