[PRL] Printing from emacs

[Eli Barzilay]

Printing stuff from Emacs on Windows has always been a mess -- the way
Emacs does it is generate the postscript, but printing postscript on
windows is not too easy.  Because of this I think that administrating
your own machine will not help much for that...  If you google for
"printing emacs windows" you'll see a faq entry about this and ways to
set things up.

On Aug 15, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> How do I print from emacs on my office Dell machine (which is a
> Systems-administered machine) to the CCIS printers?  I'd like to be
> able to use the "print buffer", etc., menu items.
> 
> I know this uses the emacs variables "printer-name" and
> "ps-printer-name", but what should I set them to?
> 
> Leaving the default ("prn") gets me a message of the form "C:/prn:
> unknown port".
> 
> Setting printer-name to "renoir" gets me
> 
> Opening output file: permission denied, c:/renoir
> 
> The HOWTO  at 
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/howto/howto-windows-adding-printers.html doesn't 
> seem relevant.
> 
> The issue seems to be how to refer to the TCP/IP port as a Windows filename.
> 
> Any thoughts?  (Other than, "administer your own machine", which I'm 
> thinking harder about...)

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