Vista - printer inventory

I took a look at the technet scripting archive and looking for something that
would possibly retrieve the serial number for local printers. I'm trying to
create an inventory of all our printers, both local and network. The main
goal is to get the serial number. Any ideas of how this can be done?

"pete0085" <pete0085@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A25CB369-A43B-4E88-AE88-D763740C1351@xxxxxxPete,

The only way that I can think of to get the SN from a printer
is via SNMP. I know of no SNMP provider for Windows aside
from the SNMP service which would allow SNMP queries of
the Windows system and I am pretty sure it does not provide
any way to query external devices such as printers. I would think
that you would need a third party tool that supports a COM interface
for script access.

One other thought that comes to mind, at least for HP printers.
Most of the newer printers support a web interface. You could
easily use IE via Script to load the page that has the serial number
info, then parse the page for what you want.


TDM