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/y
Sets the printer being installed as the default printer.
/?
Displays the in-product help for the command and its associated parameters.
@[file]
Specifies a command-line argument file and directly inserts the text in that file into the command line.
Modification Parameters
Description
/a[file]
Specifies the binary file name.
/b[name]
Specifies the base printer name.
/c[name]
Specifies the computer name if the action to be performed is on a remote computer.
/f[file]
Species the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path and name of the .inf file name or the output file name, depending on the task that you are performing. Use /F[file] to specify a dependent .inf file.
/F[file]
Specifies the UNC path and name of a .inf file that the .inf file specified with /f[file] depends on.
/h[architecture]
Specifies the driver architecture. Use one of the following: x86, x64, or Itanium.
/j[provider]
Specifies the print provider name.
/l[path]
Specifies the UNC path where the printer driver files that you are using are located.
/m[model]
Specifies the driver model name. (This value can be specified in the .inf file.)
/n[name]
Specifies the printer name.
/q
Runs the command with no notifications to the user.
/r[port]
Specifies the port name.
/u
Specifies to use the existing printer driver if it is already installed.
/t[#]
Specifies the zero-based index page to start on.
/v[version]
Specifies the driver version. If you do not also specify a value for /K, you must specify one of the following values: type 2 - Kernel mode or type 3 - User mode.
/w
prompts the user for a driver if the driver is not found in the .inf file that is specified by /f.
/Y
Specifies that printer names should not be automatically generated.
/z
Specifies to not automatically share the printer being installed.
/K
changes the meaning of the parameter /h[architecture] to accept 2 in place of x86, 3 in place of x64, or 4 in place of Itanium. It also changes the value of the parameter /v[version] to accept 2 in the place of type 2 - Kernel mode and 3 in place of type 3 - User mode.
/Z
Shares the printer that is being installed. Only use with the /if parameter.
/Mw[message]
Displays a warning message to the user before committing the changes specified in the command line.