This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Out-Printer', in PowerShell version 2 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Sends output to a printer.
Out-Printer [[-Name] <string>] [-InputObject <psobject>] [<CommonParameters>]
The Out-Printer cmdlet sends output to the default printer or to an alternate printer, if one is specified.
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Out-String
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-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
C:\PS>get-content $pshome\about_signing.help.txt | Out-Printer
Description
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This command prints the content of the about_Signing Help topic to the default printer. This example shows you how to print a file, even though O
ut-Printer does not have a Path parameter.
The command uses the Get-Content cmdlet to get the contents of the Help topic. The path includes $pshome, a built-in variable that stores the ins
tallation directory for Windows PowerShell. A pipeline operator (|) passes the results to Out-Printer, which sends it to the default printer.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
C:\PS>"Hello, World" | out-printer -name "\\Server01\Prt-6B Color"
Description
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This command prints "Hello, World" to the "Prt-6B Color" printer on Server01. This command uses the Name parameter to specify the alternate print
er. Because the parameter name is optional, you can omit it.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------
C:\PS>$h = get-help -full get-wmiobject
C:\PS> out-printer -inputobject $h
Description
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These commands print the full version of the Help topic for Get-WmiObject. The first command uses the Get-Help cmdlet to get the full version of
the Help topic for Get-WmiObject and stores it in the $h variable. The second command sends the content to the default printer. It uses the Input
Object parameter to pass the value of the $h variable to Out-Printer.