knowing if a printer is connected

[BNig]

Peter,
I was a little too fast with my reply, I am afraid

this gives me all the information of the current printer unfortunately it
does return idle even if the current printer is off.

tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
	set Current_Printer to name of current printer --> set a variable for the
name of your current/default printer
	set tKind to kind of current printer
	set tproperties to properties of current printer
	set tJob to job of current printer
end tell

Since you are looking for an active/connected printer this is probably not
working. 
regards
Bernd




BNig wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
> 	set Current_Printer to name of current printer --> set a variable for the
> name of your current/default printer
> end tell
> 
> this applescript tells me the currently selected printer on MacOSX 10.5.8
> 
> regards
> Bernd
> 
> 
> Peter Brigham MD wrote:
>> 
>> I have a stack system that is being used on laptops (at this point Mac  
>> OSX only). One of my beta testers uses it in three different  
>> locations. Among many other things, the stack prints out notes and  
>> various other text files from within Rev (running in IDE on RevMedia  
>> 4.0 -- eventually I'll get to porting it as a standalone). As it  
>> stands now, the user needs to select the currently available printer  
>> using the system preferences. I need a way to discover if the printer  
>> designated as active in the system preferences is actually the one  
>> that is plugged into the USB port. I have a way for the user to change  
>> the printer from within the stack, but I'd like to avoid the situation  
>> where he tries to print something and gets the bobbing printer driver  
>> icon in the dock telling him that that printer is unavailable (because  
>> he's at a different site and forgot to change his printer designation).
>> 
>> The ideal solution would be to be able to detect the currently  
>> connected printer and send any print job automatically  to that  
>> printer, but I'd settle for just being able to post an alert when  
>> trying to print to notify him that he is about to use an unavailable  
>> printer. How do I detect what printer is connected? Or at least,  
>> detect if a designated printer is connected or not?
>> 
>> -- Peter
>> 
>> Peter M. Brigham
>> pmbrig at gmail.com
>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>> 
> 
> 

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