Re: specifying printer to gnus

[Eric Abrahamsen]

allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:

> I have two printers on my system.
>   ss is a color deskjet connected via the lan
>   lj is a b/w laserjet directly connected via usb
>
> I want to print on lj by default.
> I set the PRINTER env variable to lj in .bash_profile
>
> When I execute gnus-summary-pipe-output (via | in Summary)
> the article (mail message) is printed on lj
>
> When I execute gnus-mime-pipe-part (via | in Article)
> the attachment is printed on lj

When you pipe the article or part, the command you give it there honors
the $PRINTER variable.

> However, when I execute ajg-gnus-summary-print-article-maybe-bw
> (via AP in Summary) the article is printed on ss.

I don't think anything in ps-*.el honors the $PRINTER variable. Maybe
set `ps-printer-name' or `printer-name'? These are guesses,
unfortunately...

Eric