detecting currently connected printer - Mac

[Mike Bonner]

Interesting.  If it returns zombie printers, its not exactly helpful.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Colin Holgate <colinholgate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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