Printer Wake Up Script

Call-Example.ps1

# with different set of printer shares
.\WakeUpPrinters.ps1 -PrinterShareNames @('printer4_ShareName','printer5_ShareName','printer6_ShareName')

# with additional verbose output
.\WakeUpPrinters.ps1 -Verbose

WakeUpPrinters.ps1

[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
    [string[]]$PrinterShareNames = @('printer1_ShareName','printer2_ShareName','printer3_ShareName')
)
$Date = Get-Date


if( @("Sunday","Saturday") -notcontains $Date.DayOfWeek)
{
    if( ($Date.Hour -ge 8) -and ($Date.Hour -lt 17) )
    {
        
        foreach($PrinterShareName in $PrinterShareNames)
        {
            $Printer = Get-WmiObject win32_printer -Filter "ShareName='$PrinterShareName'"
            Write-Verbose "$PrinterShareName - Status [$($Printer.PrinterStatus)]"

            if($Printer.PrinterStatus -ne 4)
            {
                Write-Verbose "$PrinterShareName - Status not '4' - Printing test page..."
                $Printer.PrintTestPage()
            }
        }
    }
}