From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: printing from w32 emacs Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:07:16 +0100 Message-ID: <436EFD24.6010302@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131347561 8865 80.91.229.2 (7 Nov 2005 07:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 08:12:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ1AX-0004K4-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:11:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ1AW-0003TV-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ16B-0002op-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ168-0002nd-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ167-0002n1-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:07:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EZ167-0003r7-PF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 436A3A53000B2DCE; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:07:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: "B. T. Raven" In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30887 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: >Has any of you out there been able to print from emacs to your local >printer? My installation is acting as if I am printing to NULL. This is >from an emacs 21.3 on win98 to a Canon i850. Neither PRN (default) or >LPT1 works as 'printer-name, quoted or not. Printer works fine if I >minimize emacs and run any other windows app incorporating a print >function. I had same results with an HP laserjet. >I would appreciate any light any of you could throw on this problem. > >Thanks, >Ed > > See http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html You should be able to use EmacsW32 ver 0.92 together with Emacs 21.3. This will add some simple printing capabilities to Emacs. It is however using your web browser. Are you able to print to your local printer from your web browser?