Re: Printing from Emacs

[Puff Addison]

Harter, Douglas wrote:

> > > If I do a 
> > > lp -d epitpl02 .profile
> > > .profile prints to the printer.
> > >
> > > However, if I do a 
> > > (setq printer-name "epitpl02") 
> > > and evaluate it (or let it in .emacs and restart emacs) and try to
> > >      
> > Print
> >    
> >
> > > Buffer on any file in emacs, I do not get a printer listing.
> > >      
> > >
> > > Anyone know why????
> > >      
> > Because printing from Emacs is not that simple. :)
> >
> > Seriously, there are some other things that need to be set before you
> > can print from Emacs.  My .emacs sets the following:
> >
> > (setq  lpr-command "lpr")
> > (setq  ps-lpr-command "lpr")
> >
> > Which tells Emacs that for normal printing use the unix lpr 
> > command and
> > for post-script printing use the lpr command.  You may or may not want
> > to use the lpr command.  (You did not say but from your 
> > message it looks
> > like you are on a unix system).
> >    
>
> I set the 2 variables as you said and the print did not like lpr. I set them
> back to lp (which is what they were before, according to what the variables
> evaluated to in the scratch buffer) and the print executed, but I got no
> output on the printer again.
>
> I am on a Sun Unix system.
>
> According to the documentation, everything is set up as it should be. 
>
> As a clarification on the printers, they are Windows LPD print servers.  I
> don't know if that might make a difference or not to emacs.
>  
If you are using lp the printer-name will not work because the  -P 
option ( ala lpr ) is assumed instead of -d (ala lp)
Try setting
(setq lpr-switches '("-d epitpl02 "))
leaving lpr-command as lp of course.



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