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It's not EXACTLY accurate to say that Printer Setup Utility is no
longer present in Leopard. Take a look at /System/Library/
CoreServices/Printer Setup Utility. Appears to launch faceless in the
background.
On Mar 1, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Jan Hendrikx wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, it made me look again, and I think I found
> out what was going on. First of all, you are completely right, even
> though the "Printer Setup Utility" is no longer present in Leopard,
> you can apparently still call it in a script. The reason why my
> script was not working is that it seems that Tiger and Leopard use
> different naming schemes for the assigned printers. I was trying to
> set a shared printer on a colleague's computer to the current printer.
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> In Tiger I could simply set the current printer to "ZTC LP2844-
> Z-200dpi".
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> However, in Leopard this printer shows up as "ZTC LP2844-Z-200dpi @
> MyColleaguesComputer".
>
> So if the printer names are hard-coded, the script will fail. That's
> what was going on. Thanks everybody for putting up with me!
--
Bruce Carter, Senior Systems Engineer http://www.nd.edu/~bcarter/
Center for Creative Computing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
IN 46556
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