I have built a private intranet using perl and have upgrading the site to IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have a section that prints tags formatted with win32 Printer. I have gone through all the steps to get perl to work.

I was able to get this working with Server 2003. I basically had to create a user for perl to use in the group IIS_WPG so that perl would print to a local printer. I can print to the printer using a test script called from the command prompt but called from a browser you get this 

HTTP Error 502.2 - Bad Gateway
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning complete set
+ of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are "ERROR: Cannot create
+ printer object! þÿÿÿ8­w4­w at testprinter.pl line 4 ". 
Detailed Error Information
Module CgiModule
Notification ExecuteRequestHandler 
Handler perl script map 
Error Code 0x00000009 
Requested URL testprinter.pl 
Physical Path testprinter.pl 
Logon Method Anonymous 
Logon User Anonymous

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The test script that I am using is 

#!perl
use Win32::Printer;

my $dc = new Win32::Printer(
            height          => 214,
            width           => 288,
            printer         => 'emtags',
            unit            => 'pt'
);

my $font = $dc->Font('Arial Bold', 24);
$dc->Font($font);
$dc->Color(0, 0, 255);
$dc->Write("Hello, Mars!", 50, 50);

$dc->End();
$dc->Close();
exit 0;

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Thanks very much for your help with this.

In reply to printing to a local printer from IIS 7.5 and server 2008 r2 by blenkhn

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