GTK3 : How to get list of all the available printers?

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Hi,

I’m working on GTK3 application in c. I want to get list of all the available printers and its basic info. One option I found was to use cupsGetDests(). I want to check is there any other option apart from using cups library?

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GTK’s printing API is not meant to be used as a way to gather information on the system: it presents a UI to the user, who then selects the printer and settings that they prefer. That information is available as a GtkPrintSettings instance.

If you want to enumerate the available printers, you’ll have to use the platform-specific API available to you—for instance, CUPS on Unix-like systems.

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Thank you this was helpful

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