Re: Printing from Emacs

[Rob Thorpe]

"Bingham, Jay" <jay.bingham@hp.com> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.246.1058209901.496.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> On: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:59 PM 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).
> You can read more about printing in the info pages.  Look in the main
> Emacs info menu for Hardcopy, Postscript and Postscript Variables.

Emacs will use the command "pr -F filename | lp" to print your file. 
Find out what this does at the command line.  See if postscript
printing works.