Re: network printing on an Win2k network.

[pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam)]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:

> The manual does (see the section "MS-DOS Printing"): use the "net
> use" command to map the networked printer to a printer port such as
> LPT3, then set ps-printer-name to that port's name.

I use this on Windows XP and it works perfectly ("HOST" and
"Printer" must be set appropriately)

      (setq-default ps-lpr-command "print")
      (setq-default ps-printer-name "\\\\HOST\\Printer")
      (setq-default ps-printer-name-option "/D:")
      (setq-default ps-lpr-switches nil)
      (setq-default ps-spool-config nil)

With Ghostscript installed one can get the usual Windows printer
dialog thing with

      (setq-default ps-lpr-command "gsprint.exe")
      (setq-default ps-printer-name t)
      (setq-default ps-printer-name-option nil)
      (setq ps-lpr-switches '("-query")) ; show printer dialog

Peter

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