>I use aprinters() to get all the printers on a user's machine. Weird thing is that when I want to pick a given printer sometimes it does'nt appear in the list of available printers.
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>And if I come back to it either after closing the application or even trying again later (without closing the app) it works allright.
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>One system is alone and another one is part of a network.
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>Any explanation for this behaviour?
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>Would you recommend something other than aprinter() to get the printers?

One way

CLEAR
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = Getobject("winmgmts:"+ "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" + strComputer + "\root\cimv2")
colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer")
For Each objPrinter In colInstalledPrinters
    ?"Name: " + objPrinter.Name
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