shell command to identify wireless printer

[Peter Brigham MD]

The availablePrinters shows the list of printers you have named and  
have drivers for -- it's what appears in the print dialog list, from  
which you choose the printer you want to use. I want to know  
automatically which printer my laptop is connected to at the moment so  
I can bypass the print dialog entirely and send all printing to that  
printer. I have a handler that detects which printer I'm plugged into  
using USB and sets the printer to that automatically, but I'm trying  
to expand it to include connected wireless printers on the network.

I think this capability should ideally be built into the OS for all  
laptops -- I can't be the only one who uses my laptop with different  
printers in different locations. Having to choose the proper printer  
every time I change venues should be unnecessary, it should be pretty  
easy for the system to do it for me, at least as an option in the  
printing preferences. In the absence of a system fix, I can at least  
build it into my Rev (er, LiveCode) projects.

-- Peter

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


On Oct 8, 2010, at 1:58 AM, Dar Scott wrote:

> Does 'the availablePrinters' in LiveCode provide anything useful?   
> Maybe its name give some indication that it is connected wirelessly.
>
> Dar Scott
>
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Peter Brigham MD 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
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