How to detect a paper printer in OS X?

Question

Mac OS X: Is there a programmatic way to determine if the selected printer is empty of paper?

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Johan kotlinski May 27 '09 at 10:45

1 answer

Brian Agnew · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-27T11:09:31+0000

Please note that Mac OS X uses CUPS and provides a printer compatible API.

See the API documentation, specifically Table 1.1 , which, among other things, specifies the error conditions