Variable: printer-name

printer-name is a customizable variable defined in lpr.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

The name of a local printer to which data is sent for printing.

(Note that PostScript files are sent to ps-printer-name, which see.)

On Unix-like systems, a string value should be a name understood by lpr's -P option; otherwise the value should be nil.

On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, a string value is taken as the name of a printer device or port, provided lpr-command is set to "". Typical non-default settings would be "LPT1" to "LPT3" for parallel printers, or "COM1" to "COM4" or "AUX" for serial printers, or
"//hostname/printer" for a shared network printer. You can also set
it to the name of a file, in which case the output gets appended to that file. If you want to discard the printed output, set this to "NUL".

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.3.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/lpr.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom printer-name
  (and (eq system-type 'ms-dos) "PRN")
  "The name of a local printer to which data is sent for printing.
\(Note that PostScript files are sent to `ps-printer-name', which see.)

On Unix-like systems, a string value should be a name understood by
lpr's -P option; otherwise the value should be nil.

On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, a string value is taken as the name of
a printer device or port, provided `lpr-command' is set to \"\".
Typical non-default settings would be \"LPT1\" to \"LPT3\" for parallel
printers, or \"COM1\" to \"COM4\" or \"AUX\" for serial printers, or
\"//hostname/printer\" for a shared network printer.  You can also set
it to the name of a file, in which case the output gets appended to that
file.  If you want to discard the printed output, set this to \"NUL\"."
  :type '(choice :menu-tag "Printer Name"
		 :tag "Printer Name"
		 (const :tag "Default" nil)
		 ;; could use string but then we lose completion for files.
                 (file :tag "Name")))