Get default printer name from command line?

Question

Microsoft Windows XP comes with a VBS script to manage local and network printers from the command line:

To Get the default printer details from command line:

cscript C:\windows\system32\prnmngr.vbs -g

To Get the list of printers added to the system from Windows command line:

cscript C:\windows\system32\prnmngr.vbs -l

Is there any equivalent commands for Windows 7? I just need to get the default printer details and get the list of printers attached to the system.

Answer 1

List of all printers names and shows default one (You can get more details read documentation)

wmic printer get name,default

If you want output to file use:

wmic printer get name,default > D:\catalog\file.txt

Availability

The wmic command is an external command that is available in the below Microsoft operating systems as wmic.exe.

Windows XP professional
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10