shell command to identify wireless printer

[Peter Brigham MD]

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