piping files to out-printer - powershell - powershell

Question

Got this script running. Nearly completed my mission to print attachments from it that land in a specific subfolder of outlook
$OutputFolder = 'C:\tests';
$outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application;
$olFolderInbox = 6;
$ns = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI");
$inbox = $ns.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderInbox);
$inbox.Folders `
| ? Name -eq 'colour' `
| % Items `
| % Attachments `
| % {
$OutputFileName = Join-Path -Path $OutputFolder -ChildPath $_.FileName;
if (Test-Path $OutputFileName) {
$FileDirectoryName = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($OutputFileName);
$FileNameWithoutExtension = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($OutputFileName);
$FileExtension = [System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($OutputFileName);
for ($i = 2; Test-Path $OutputFileName; $i++) {
$OutputFileName = "{0} ({1}){2}" -f (Join-Path -Path $FileDirectoryName -ChildPath $FileNameWithoutExtension), $i, $FileExtension;
}
}
Write-Host $OutputFileName;
$_.SaveAsFile($OutputFileName)
}
Remove-Item -Path C:\tests\*.jpg
Dir C:\tests\ | Out-Printer -name xerox-b8
Remove-Item -Path C:\tests\*.*
when i try to pipe the objects to print i am getting XML printing out, or just the directory contents
I have tried:
select-object (wrong)
get-childitem (wrong)
DIR C:\tests\*.* (only returns directory listing printout)
These either return a load of XML rubbish or just a directory listing,
How can i pipe the contents of a folder to a printer using powershell, surely this can be done