Question: You want to see the printer configuration for a printer defined on your Windows 8.1 computer. How can you do this using Windows PowerShell?
Answer: On Windows 8 and above, use the Get-Printer function to identify printers, and then pipeline the results to the Get-PrintConfiguration function. The following command finds all printers with the name of HP in the name, and reports the configuration.
Get-Printer -Name *hp* | Get-PrintConfiguration
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