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AD Scripting
está en vbs, creo que te será facil migrarlo a vb6
Cita: rem Monitoring the Status of All the Printers on a Computer
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer")
For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objPrinter.Name
Wscript.Echo "Location: " & objPrinter.Location
Select Case objPrinter.PrinterStatus
Case 1
strPrinterStatus = "Other"
Case 2
strPrinterStatus = "Unknown"
Case 3
strPrinterStatus = "Idle"
Case 4
strPrinterStatus = "Printing"
Case 5
strPrinterStatus = "Warmup"
End Select
Wscript.Echo "Printer Status: " & strPrinterStatus
Wscript.Echo "Server Name: " & objPrinter.ServerName
Wscript.Echo "Share Name: " & objPrinter.ShareName
Wscript.Echo
Next