detecting currently connected printer - Mac

[Colin Holgate]

Was curious what that does. For me it returns a list of all the printers my Mac has seen in the last few years, and currently I have no active printers on my network at home.


> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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