Windows – Can i forward print jobs from one printer to another in windows

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I want to forward all the jobs from one printer to another on Windows XP, Vist, 7,8 – is this possible? The scenario would be any print job printed on one would also be printed on the other in a chained fashion.

EDIT: The printers are all local

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Sounds like you're looking for print mirroring, not forwarding.

To the best of my knowledge, this kind of setup is not possible with the native Windows print spooler. You'll have to get fancy to accomplish this.

Fancy, in this case, would be a custom print-provider. There are third party utilities (paid, I know of no free ones) that do this, as that kind of setup is occasionally found in high print situations like Higher Education computer labs.

How it works is that when you create a new print queue, you create it through a custom print port. This is a software shim that can do things like mirror print jobs between other queues on the system or do more intelligent print-pooling than the native Windows system.

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This should be fairly simple to do in Powershell. You will find powershell a little more to your liking coming from *nix. You will however be working with WMI, which is truely a blessing and a curse.

Some example code that does what you want (NOT TESTED):

$strComputer = "."

$PrintJobs = get-wmiobject -class "Win32_PrintJob" -namespace "root\CIMV2" -computername $strComputer | Where-Object { $_.StartTime -lt $($(Get-Date).addDays(-1)) }

foreach ($job in $PrintJobs) {
    Write-Host "Canceling job $($job.JobId)"
    $job.Delete
}

Basically you will just need to get all objects from WMI where the Start Time is less than now - 24 hours.

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