Re: [evince] A question about printers

[Jason Crain <jason inspiresomeone us>]

On 2019-06-07, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg tristatelogic com> wrote:
> How does Evince become aware of the set of available printers and their
> names?  Is there a specific file someplace in the filesystem that holds
> this list?  Or is there some specific API by which it is obtained by the
> applications that need it, e.g. Evince, Firefox, etc. ?

Evince does not itself search for printers. It uses Gtk APIs for the
print dialog. 

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-High-level-Printing-API.html

Sorry, but I don't know how Gtk finds printers.