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Getting a list of printer names, not queue names

I have some code to get the list of printers and then get the name of the current printer. The code looks something like this:
OSStatus status;
PMPrintSession thePrintSession;
CFArrayRef printerList;
CFIndex currentIndex;
PMPrinter currentPrinter;
CFStringRef nameRef;
uchar theName[256];

status = PMCreateSession(&thePrintSession);
if (status == kPMNoError) {
printerList = CFArrayCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorSystemDefault, 0, NULL);
if (printerList) {
status = PMSessionCreatePrinterList(thePrintSession, &printerList, &currentIndex, &currentPrinter);
if (status == kPMNoError) {
nameRef = (const CFStringRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(printerList, 1);
CFStringGetPascalString(nameRef, (uchar *)theName, 256, kCFStringEncodingMacRoman);
CFRelease(nameRef);
}
CFRelease(printerList);
}
PMRelease(thePrintSession);
}

This seems to work. I have one question though. Let's say I create a printer with the same name as an already existing printer. The two printer names are identical but the queue names are different, the new name has a '-1' added to the end of it to make it unique. When I get a list of printer names using the above routine it actually returns a list of queue names, not printer names. But when I go into the print dialog and click on the Printer popup I see a list of printer names, not queue names. I would like to create a list of printers that matches the names in the Printer popup. How would I go about doing this?

Thank you,

Alex Kettner

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