I have two new printers that I will need to install to an office of about 30-40 users. This office does NOT use a print server and my manager has stated he does not wish to use GPO to install the new printers. I have been taking a look for a good way to install the two printers quickly (without me having to go through the wizard each time). I normally use powershell for most of my automation, however I found the PRINTUI.EXE feature to be much more direct to what I was looking to do. I just can't get it to work, even using the examples provided in windows when you type in printui. Below is what I have tried: C:\>rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "BK205B-LJ01" /f c:\drivers\7120\x2GCHAX.inf /r "lpt1:" /m "Xerox 7120 PCL6" Error: The arguments are invalid C:\>rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /m "Xerox 7120 PCL6" /h "x64" /v "Type 3 - User Mode" /f c:\drivers\7120\x2GCHAX.inf Error: The arguments are invalid C:\>PRINTUI.EXE /ia /m "Xerox 7120" /h "x64" /v "Type 3 - User Mode" /f c:\drivers\7120\x2GCHAX.inf Error: The arguments are invalid I have made some other similar attempts but I am getting the same issue every time. I have the .inf sitting on a local folder and although this is going to be a tcp/ip printer, I am willing to install it as a local port just to get the wheels rolling and I can figure it out from there. Any help would be appreciated. As I have stated above, GPO is not an option per my boss or else I would have gone that route. Please do not suggest that I use GPO or print servers.

If your company has spent so much for this multifunction printer, it would be reasonable procedure to use appropriate technology for managing it. Have you consider Web-based Print Driver Installer? Because of special problem I would recommend to address it to Xerox forum here http://forum.support.xerox.com/ Regards Milos

This particular group is outside the norm. This is only a temporary issue, one that we have discussed and decided not to change our GPO for. In any matter, the issue is now resolved. I have changed the driver to a PS driver and the batch file no longer returns with "The arguments are invalid". I had thought that I had already tried a separate driver before I posted here, but apparently not. In my hurry I must of forgotten it. Coded that worked: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Printer Name" /f c:\driverfolder\driver.inf /r "port" /m "Model" As a note: this code has to use a port that has already been added. It will not create the port for you in the example above.