How to remove printers by name mask via command line?

Question

PowerShell

Good afternoon. I know a command that deletes a printer by name, but I don’t know how to delete all printers in whose names there is the word Canon.

Command to delete a specific printer:
rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dl /n "Canon MF210 Series" /q

Tried to do this type, but did not work:
rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dl /n "Canon* "/q

Answer 1

via powershell running with admin rights:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-printer

Name                           ComputerName    Type         DriverName                PortName        Shared   Published  DeviceType
----                           ------------    ----         ----------                --------        ------   ---------  ----------
Printer-BADC                                   Local        Samsung Universal Prin... WSD-b2a188e9... False    False      Print
Microsoft XPS Document Writer                  Local        Microsoft XPS Document... PORTPROMPT:     False    False      Print
Microsoft Print to PDF                         Local        Microsoft Print To PDF    PORTPROMPT:     False    False      Print
Fax                                            Local        Microsoft Shared Fax D... SHRFAX:         False    False      Print


PS C:\Windows\system32> get-printer | where name -match "print"

Name                           ComputerName    Type         DriverName                PortName        Shared   Published  DeviceType
----                           ------------    ----         ----------                --------        ------   ---------  ----------
Printer-BADC                                   Local        Samsung Universal Prin... WSD-b2a188e9... False    False      Print
Microsoft Print to PDF                         Local        Microsoft Print To PDF    PORTPROMPT:     False    False      Print


PS C:\Windows\system32> get-printer | where name -match "print" | remove-printer
PS C:\Windows\system32> get-printer

Name                           ComputerName    Type         DriverName                PortName        Shared   Published  DeviceType
----                           ------------    ----         ----------                --------        ------   ---------  ----------
Microsoft XPS Document Writer                  Local        Microsoft XPS Document... PORTPROMPT:     False    False      Print
Fax                                            Local        Microsoft Shared Fax D... SHRFAX:         False    False      Print

Answer 2

If the command does not support regular expressions, then you need to wrap it in a loop.
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