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<h3 class="section">6.6 Printing Your Mail</h3>
<p><a name="index-printing-663"></a><a name="index-mh_002dps_002dprint_002dmsg-664"></a><a name="index-mh_002dps_002dprint_002dmsg_002dfile-665"></a><a name="index-P-f-666"></a><a name="index-P-p-667"></a><a name="index-mh_002dlpr_002dcommand_002dformat-668"></a><a name="index-mh_002dprint_002dbackground_002dflag-669"></a>
To print messages in MH-E, use the command <kbd>P p</kbd>
(<code>mh-ps-print-msg</code>). You can print all the messages in a range
(as in <kbd>C-u P p 1 3 5-7 last:5 frombob <RET></kbd>,
see <a href="Ranges.html#Ranges">Ranges</a>). You can also send the output to a file with <kbd>P f</kbd>
(<code>mh-ps-print-msg-file</code>). This command will print inline text
attachments but will not decrypt messages. However, when a message is
displayed in an MH-Show buffer, then that buffer is used verbatim for
printing with the caveat that only text attachments, if opened inline,
are printed. Therefore, encrypted messages can be printed by showing
and decrypting them first. The commands <kbd>P p</kbd> and <kbd>P f</kbd> do not
use the options <code>mh-lpr-command-format</code> or
<code>mh-print-background-flag</code>, described below.
<p><a name="index-mh_002dps_002dprint_002dtoggle_002dcolor-670"></a><a name="index-P-C-671"></a><a name="index-ps_002dprint_002dcolor_002dp-672"></a>
Colors are emulated on black-and-white printers with shades of gray.
This might produce illegible output, even if your screen colors only
use shades of gray. If this is the case, try using the command <kbd>P
C</kbd> (<code>mh-ps-print-toggle-color</code>) to toggle between color, no
color, and a black and white representation of the colors and see
which works best. You change this setting permanently by customizing
the option <code>ps-print-color-p</code>.
<p><a name="index-mh_002dps_002dprint_002dtoggle_002dfaces-673"></a><a name="index-P-F-674"></a>
Another related function is the command <kbd>P F</kbd>
(<code>mh-ps-print-toggle-faces</code>). This command toggles between using
faces and not. When faces are enabled, the printed message will look
very similar to the message in the MH-Show buffer.
<p><a name="index-ps_002dprint-package-675"></a><a name="index-Emacs_002c-packages_002c-ps_002dprint-676"></a>
MH-E uses the `<samp><span class="samp">ps-print</span></samp>' package to do the printing, so you can
customize the printing further by going to the `<samp><span class="samp">ps-print</span></samp>'
customization group.
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040command_007blpr_007d-677"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040command_007bmhl_007d-678"></a><a name="index-MH-commands_002c-_0040command_007bmhl_007d-679"></a><a name="index-Unix-commands_002c-_0040command_007blpr_007d-680"></a><a name="index-mh_002dprint_002dmsg-681"></a><a name="index-P-l-682"></a>
An alternative to using the `<samp><span class="samp">ps-print</span></samp>' package is the command
<kbd>P l</kbd> (<code>mh-print-msg</code>) (the <i>l</i> is for <i>l</i>ine printer or
<i>l</i>pr). You can print all the messages in a range. The message is
formatted with <samp><span class="command">mhl</span></samp><a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a> and printed with the <samp><span class="command">lpr</span></samp> command.
<p><a name="index-P-f-683"></a><a name="index-P-l-684"></a><a name="index-P-p-685"></a><a name="index-mh_002dlpr_002dcommand_002dformat-686"></a><a name="index-mh_002dprint_002dbackground_002dflag-687"></a>
The command <kbd>P l</kbd> uses two options. The option
<code>mh-lpr-command-format</code> contains the Unix command line which
performs the actual printing. The string can contain one escape,
`<samp><span class="samp">%s</span></samp>', which is replaced by the name of the folder and the message
number and is useful for print job names. The default setting is
<code>"lpr -J '%s'"</code>. I use <code>"mpage -h'%s' -b Letter -H1of -mlrtb
-P"</code> which produces a nice header and adds a bit of margin so the text
fits within my printer's margins. Normally messages are printed in the
foreground. If this is slow on your system, you may elect to turn on
the option <code>mh-print-background-flag</code> to print in the background.
If you do this, do not delete the message until it is printed or else
the output may be truncated. These options are not used by the
commands <kbd>P p</kbd> or <kbd>P f</kbd>.
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<h4>Footnotes</h4><p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-1" href="#fnd-1">1</a>]</small> See the section
<a href="http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shomes.html#Usisho">Using mhl</a> in the MH
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