How do I print to an IP address printer from emacs?

[tpmjohnson]

I am a Vista user and new to emacs (23). Whenever I try to print the current buffer with headers I receive the error: 'Opening output file: permission denied, c:/xx.xx.x.xxx' where xxx is the ip address port name of the current default printer. It seems like it is trying to print to a file named xx.xx.x.xxx instead of to the port? I have read through the various wiki entries but none of the suggestions seem to work.  Any ideas on how to change this?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:22 AM, <tpmjohnson@...> wrote:
> I am a Vista user and new to emacs (23). Whenever I try to print the current
> buffer with headers I receive the error: 'Opening output file: permission
> denied, c:/xx.xx.x.xxx' where xxx is the ip address port name of the current
> default printer. It seems like it is trying to print to a file named
> xx.xx.x.xxx instead of to the port? I have read through the various wiki
> entries but none of the suggestions seem to work.  Any ideas on how to
> change this?

Please send a bug report.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:22:06 -0400
> From: tpmjohnson@...
>
> I
> am a Vista user and new to emacs (23). Whenever I try to print the current buffer
> with headers I receive the error: 'Opening output file: permission
> denied, c:/xx.xx.x.xxx' where xxx is the ip address port name of the
> current default printer. It seems like it is trying to print to a file
> named xx.xx.x.xxx instead of to the port? I have read through the various wiki entries but none of the suggestions seem to work.? Any ideas on how to change this?

I needed to configure Emacs for printing on one system that had such a
printer.  I ended up installing PrintFile (http://www.lerup.com/printfile/)
and configuring Emacs to use it similar to the Ghostscript configuration
described in the Emacs manual.