29 Printing from Emacs

If you want to use the printer named lpt1 whenever you print from Emacs, you would want to set lpr-switches to -Plpt1. To do so, add the following line to your .emacs file:

(setq lpr-switches '("-Plpt1"))

Printing commands:

Keystrokes	Action
M-x print-buffer File → Print Buffer	Print the buffer (similar to Unix **pr
M-x print-region File → Print Region	Print the region (similar to Unix **pr
M-x lpr-buffer	Print buffer with no page numbers (similar to Unixlpr).
M-x lpr-region	Print region with no page numbers (similar to Unixlpr).
P Operate → Print	From Dired, put the default print command in the minibuffer; you can change it or pressEnter to execute it.
M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces File → Postscript Print Buffer	Print the buffer with text attributes.
M-x ps-print-region-with-faces File → Postscript Print Region	Print the region with text attributes.