shell command to identify wireless printer

[Peter Brigham MD]

lpq I'm not sure of -- it gives some odd output here with my home  
wireless printer. But a search sent me in the direction of lpstat,  
which looks promising. I'll test it out in the next few days. Thanks

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Oct 7, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> 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
>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig <http://home.comcast.net/%7Epmbrig>
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