detecting currently connected printer - Mac

[Mike Bonner]

does-- lpstat -p give the info you need? (from shell)

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone know how to get a listing of the currently connected printer on a
> Mac? I used to do this on my (very) old MacBook via a shell call:
> put shell("ioreg") into tList
> and then parse the list to find the connected printer name.
>
> And I now have a new MacBook Pro, and I can’t find anything resembling a
> printer in the IO registry list.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> — Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com <mailto:pmbrig at gmail.com>
>
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