shell command to identify wireless printer

[Mike Bonner]

lpq should do what you want.  Will show all print queues and their status
for example, my wireless printer returns

_3500_4500_Series_<MAC:002000148b45> is ready
no entries

no entries of course meaning that there are no queued documents. I didn't
try shutting my printer down to see if the status would change though, so
your mileage may vary.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for the shell command that would include in its output
> something that would identify a printer that is currently wirelessly
> connected to my MacBook. I can use shell("ioreg") to get info on a printer
> connected via USB (after some parsing), but my wireless printer connection
> doesn't show up in the ioreg listing. What command can I use to see how the
> system identifies a wireless printer? I need to be able to confirm before
> printing from a stack that the wireless connection to the printer is up and
> running.
>
> If it matters, the wireless connection is not a Bonjour connection -- it's
> a PC wireless network. I can print fine using the printer, so the connection
> is good, and functional.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
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