identifying a printer only

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at work we have several pcs that share some printers and plotters. In particular, a printer/photocopying machine is used for printing in 3 modes: color, mono and bypass i.e. use the outside drawer and not the inside a3 and a4 drawers.
in my lisp use for printing the related names that were assigned:
“taskalfa mono”
“taskalfa color”
“taskalfa bypass”
in the last pc that was added to the network, the names appear slightly different: “taskalfa_monocrome”. This would not be a problem for a "human"! instead for a pc, it becomes a problem.
I know that the solution would be to rename the printer on the incriminated pc, but I wonder if there is no possibility of finding a unique code (e.g. Ip 192.168.0.45) and re-use the name to pass to the lisp to make it "universal".

 

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I found this:

(getplotdevices (vla-get-activedocument))

... that creates a nice list of system printers.
now I just have to make a lisp (with wcmatch) that find, for example, the words "taskalfa" and "mono" that are common both to "taskalfa mono" and to "taskalfa_monocrome" ... and the game is done!

 

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... for the record I found the code mentioned above on:

Free AutoLISP and Visual LISP code snippets for AutoCAD - JTB World

Free AutoLISP code snippets that can help you on the way with Visual LISP in AutoCAD.

www.jtbworld.com

in particular:
getplotdevices.lsp
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plotdevicesfunctions.lsp