print to and email ?

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See if there is a "send" option under "file". Microsoft Works Word Processor
has it.
 
Is it possible to print to an email without buying a product to do it
in XP ?
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What are you trying to do? What application are you printing from?

If you're using Notepad, Wordpad, MS Works, MS Word or some other word
processing application, just "save" the job and attach the file to your
email. If you don't want to attach a file, use copy and paste to insert
text directly into an email.

Alternatively, if you're using some application that does not have a
"save" command, use the "print to file" feature and then attach that
file. The following relates to Device Manager, but will work for
anything with a "print" command but no "save" command

How to Print to a Text File
Device Manager does not have a Save command available for you to save a
report to a text file. To save a Device Manager report to a text file,
you must install a generic, text-only printer, and then redirect the
Device Manager report to this printer.

To print to a text file:
1. Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2. Click Add a Printer, and then choose the following options in the
wizard:

a. Click Local Printer.
b. Click to clear the Automatically detect and install my Plug
and Play printer check box.
c. Click Use the Following Port, and then click FILE (Print to
file).
d. Click Generic in the Manufacturer box.
e. Click Generic / Text Only in the Printers box.
f. Name the printer.
g. Click Do not share this printer.
h. Click No when you are prompted to print a test page.

3. When you click the printer in the Print dialog box, Windows prompts
you for a file name.
 
I have a web based application that needs to have pages custom pages
sent by email (patient prescriptions). There is no URL that others can
get to so sending a link won't work.

I simply need a way to add a printer driver that will take whatever I
print and send it as an email attachment. RTF, DOC, PDF would be fine.
The user needs to be able to print to an email, not having to save
to the desktop first or some other unfriendly way.

Thanks for any and all help. I tried the $79 program print2email and
does exactly what we need but I need a free way.
 
That's not my goal. I'm trying to Print in Firefox to an EMAIL, so it
will show up as an attachment, pdf, tiff, i don't care.

Thanks
 
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