grep

I am using grep to get print options from the same line the name of a printer is found on in a file.  In some files the name of the printer may appear two or more times.  I need to get the option from the line the the name of the printer on the first occurance only.

Is there a way to modify the below line so it will only get one occurance of the printer option?

printtype=`grep -i ${printname} /usr/local/etc/hbspool.conf | cut -f3 -d" "`

Or is there another way to operate on the $printtype variable after its value is set and get the string up to the first whitespace?

Thanks for your help.