Hi,

My operating system in GNU Guix, it's not a normal linux distro.

> Does the lpr command print outside of Emacs?

I am not sure what you mean and how to do it.

I have cups installed.

I never printed with the terminal, so I don't know.
I tried it briefly with:
sudo cat my-file-to-print.txt > /dev/lp

but it didn't work.

basically my printer is working with cups installed,
and I even managed to print from emacs with my browser by that:

M-x htmlfontify-buffer		
file:///home/gfp/testeev.txt	
browse-url-of-file		


thanks for help

Gottfried



Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: printing
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Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:

 > I added this to my init.el file:
 >
 > ;;printer
 > (setq lpr-switches
 >       (append '("-P" "HP_Officejet_J4680_All-in-One"
 >                 "-o" "sides=two-sided-long-edge"
 >                 "-o" "number-up=2")
 >               lpr-switches))
 >
 >
 > But still it does not find my printer.
 >
 > Where is my mistake?
 > The two lines after the printer I am not sure if they are right as well,
 > but probably that has nothing to do with the printer itself.

Does the lpr command print outside of Emacs?

Michael.