Script to remove all printers

I'm trying to find a script to remove all current and stale printers on some TS sessions. I've tried a couple of scripts but they all seem to error one way or another. Firstly I've tried
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * From Win32_Printer Where Network = True")
For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters
objPrinter.Delete_
Next
But I get an invalid parameters on Line 6 with code 80041008 and source SWbemObjectEx. I've also tried
'Define Variables and Objects.
Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Const NETWORK = 22
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Printer")
For Each objPrinter in colPrinters
If objPrinter.Attributes And NETWORK Then
strPrinter = objPrinter.Name
objNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection strPrinter
End If
Next
'Note: Gpupdate command has to be run twice as the ECHO command can't answer more than one question.
'Refresh the USER policies and also answer no to logoff if asked.
Result = WshShell.Run("cmd /c echo n | gpupdate /target:user /force",0,true)
'Refresh the Computer policies and answer no to reboot.
Result = WshShell.Run("cmd /c echo n | gpupdate /target:computer /force",0,true)
'Hand back the errorlevel
Wscript.Quit(Result)
But with this one I get an error on line 16 with 'This network connection does not exist' and code 800708CA and source WSHNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive.
Only solution at the moment I can think of is to just remove them all from the registry but would rather do it user based via script.

hmmmm. The ones set by GPO are fine as they are the ones that are meant to stay it's just that there are a lot of rubbish printers sat on peoples user profiles that are old and non-existent so we just want to wipe all the old and just keep the new

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