The printername gives the name of the printer currently selected in
the print dialog, ie, the default printer. On my MacBook, this will be
the last printer used. But that will not necessarily be the name of
the currently connected printer, if I have changed venues. I'm trying
to find a way to discover the name of the printer that is currently
connected to the Mac. I can do this with a rather complex handler I
cobbled together if the the printer is plugged in via USB, but I'm
struggling to find a way of getting the name of a printer that is
currently connected wirelessly over an Airport router. It turns out
that neither lpstat nor lpq seem to do this.
Any further ideas? Anyone?
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
[email protected]
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 10/8/10 12:30 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:
The availablePrinters shows the list of printers you have named and
have
drivers for -- it's what appears in the print dialog list, from which
you choose the printer you want to use. I want to know automatically
which printer my laptop is connected to at the moment so I can bypass
the print dialog entirely and send all printing to that printer.
Isn't that "the printername"?
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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