Re: Printer definition

[Ed Reingold]

The best thing would be to trap the error (the way it does with pr)
and signal the user.  No response meant I had to manually debug
the code.  The man page for the lpr that I use specifically says that
it does not honor the -d option.

he problem is that, for some reason, the flag to the lpr command was
> > set to "-d"
> > instead of  "-P" even though Emacs knows it's a Unix-like system
> > (Solaris).
>
> "lp -d<printer>" is a standard Unix command, and lpr.el apparently
> thinks it's the right command to use for your system.  IIRC Solaris
> indeed has an "lp" command (tho my experience with Solaris is from many
> years ago), so normally all you have to do is (setq printer-name
> "HP4050HM_FDx").  Have you tried to simply remove the (setq lpr-command
> "lpr")?
>
> Admittedly, maybe lpr-printer-switch should be automatically updated to
> "-P" if you set lpr-command to "lpr".
>
>         Stefan