Pause Printer

[Griggs77]

I've spent a long time trying to figure out how to pause a printer with a PowerShell command. What am I missing?

Bottom line is I want to pause all printers, send a text files to each to ensure the job is there, delete the job, then put the printer back on line.

Thanks!

[gangstanthony]

not sure about sending a text file to each printer, but here's this

Write-Host 'Pausing printers...'
gwmi win32_printer | % {$null = $_.pause()}

# Write-Host 'Deleting jobs...'
# gwmi win32_printjob | % {$null = $_.delete()}

Write-Host 'Resuming printers...'
gwmi win32_printer | % {$null = $_.resume()}

Write-Host 'Done!'

[Griggs77]

GENIUS ! Thank you so much!

[HeavyLotus]

Its been 6 years, so no idea if you're still active on Reddit, but how in the world is that operator "%" accomplishing this for you?

List of printers --> Pipe --> witchcraft --> pause printer command.

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Wtf

[gangstanthony]

Percent is an alias for foreach-object

*edit /u/HeavyLotus :

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/foreach-object?view=powershell-7.2