[PRL] Printing from emacs

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Aug 15, 2005, at 2:23 PM, 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...)

I hate to say this one more time, but once printing worked from my mac 
(a mess in 10.1) Emacs printing just worked. Administering your own 
machine is the way to go.

>
>  --Mitch
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