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Are you looking for locally attached printers or network printers?

Network printers...

Here's a printer example (among other things) http://itninja.com/question/extending-the-computer-inventory-to-support-user-profile-specific-&-other-non-inventoried-data&mpage=1&key=printer𔜠


Here's another thought:
Connected network printers are normally assigned to the user and not the computer, if you want to have them in your computer inventory too, just use the attached script that will write a list of them to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Dell\CustomInventory\NetworkPrinters. Just rename it to enum_network_printers.vbs and let it  run it as a script, it can run in the local system context and will scan the profiles off all users that are logged on to the computer. You can the collect the printers via custom inventory.


const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Dim aPrinterList()
Redim aPrinterList(0)

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")

objWMIService.EnumKey HKEY_USERS, "", aUsers

If VarType(aUsers) = 8204 Then

For i = 0 To UBound(aUsers)
sCurrentUser = aUsers(i)

objWMIService.EnumKey HKEY_USERS, sCurrentUser & "\Printers\Connections", aPrinters

If VarType(aPrinters) = 8204 Then
For j = 0 To UBound(aPrinters)
sPrinter = Replace(aPrinters(j), ",,", "\\")
sPrinter = Replace(aPrinters(j), ",", "\")
iCurrentIndex = UBound(aPrinterList) + j
Redim Preserve aPrinterList(iCurrentIndex)
aPrinterList(iCurrentIndex) = sPrinter
Next

End If

Next
objWMIService.CreateKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\Dell\CustomInventory"
If Join(aPrinterList, ",") <> "" Then
objWMIService.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\Dell\CustomInventory", "NetworkPrinters", Join(aPrinterList, ",")
End If

End If


We created an Asset Type called Printers and store information there. Create a new Asset Type and play with all the options. Existing spreadsheets are easily imported with a csv file. With the new feature added of having a web link as a field you can now put in an IP or name of a printer in there. It doesn't assume "http://" so that must be entered too. Your fields will be different but here's a screen shot of what we use.

Hey! I don't have Link as choice in the Field Type... Did you create that and if so, how?

Never mind - I see it in the release notes for version 3.