Microsoft® VBScript Step by Step

Chapter 18. Working with Printers

Before You Begin

To work through the material presented in this chapter, you need to be familiar with the following concepts from earlier chapters:

• Creating a connection into Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

• Creating an instance of the FileSystemObject class

• Implementing the For...Next statement

• Implementing the Select Case statement

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Work with the Win32_Printer WMI class

• Convert status codes into readable text

• Work with the Win32_PrintJob WMI class

Working with Win32_Printer

In this section, you are going to use the WMI Win32_Printer class. This particular WMI class is large and robust, defining more than 80 properties and implementing 7 methods. Some ...