[Req #57357] [PRL] Printing from emacs

[Mitchell Wand]

Eli Barzilay wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>

Yes, I've looked at the FAQ, but it says things like

>  (setq printer-name "LPT2:")                      ; non-standard port
>  (setq printer-name "//some-server/its-printer")  ; network printer
>
which skips over the interesting part-- namely how you refer to the 
server on our meghugah network.

And Matthias wrote:

> 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.

I'm definitely leaning in that direction:  in that case I could at least 
use the info in the CCIS HOWTO. :-P

--Mitch