How to remotely detect printers?

I really dont know under which category this post should belong...My apologies....

As a company's intern, I was asked to research on this to see if I can do it. Basically, I am suppose to find a way for the network adminstrator to detect ALL printers connected to client machines and store the info (client machine name, printer model, etc) in a database. This includes all USB and parallel printers.

I'm not really sure how to do this. My boss suggests using a "logon script" that automatically detect printers when logging on. For instance, when a Windows user logs on to the domain, some script should try to detect all locally connected printers on the client's machine and report that back to the central database.

So my question is "Is this possible?". And if so, what programming/scripting language should I use? Perl, PHP, etc? Can I even do this using a .NET language?