Get list of printers

Can I obtain a list of printers using Star Basic?

It was my understanding that OOo has always had an easy method of 
obtaining a list of printers, but that this method was not available 
from Basic. With OOo 1.x and 2.x, I issued the ".uno:Print" dispatch and 
then used an interesting set of routines to directly manipulate the 
print dialog to obtain a list of printers (wish I could say it was my idea).

The print dialog changed and this "cheater" method no longer works. I 
can pursue this method and modify it to work with the latest version of 
OOo (well, maybe I can), but, it would be nice if there were an easier way.

I had hoped it would be as easy as

  CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.awt.PrinterServer")

Unfortunately, the returned object is not usable.


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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
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