detecting currently connected printer - Mac

[Colin Holgate]

I found this, which lets you see all devices connected to USB:

ioreg -p IOUSB -w0 | sed 's/[^o]*o //; s/@.*$//' | grep -v '^Root.*'



> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 16, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Interesting.  If it returns zombie printers, its not exactly helpful.
> 
> Right. I need a way of detecting which printer is currently connected via USB. Any other ideas?
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
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