'sup y'all,

I just got a Dot Matrix printer from a friend, because i wanted to make .matrix music :), and thought let's give it a shot in perl(printing that is).

So i look at some docs, talk to somebody, and bam: 

open(PRINTER,">LPT1:") or die "Can't write to LPT1: $!\n";
print PRINTER " HOLY SCHNIKES, I'M A PRINTIN'\!\n";
close(PRINTER);

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So i say to myself, "That's cool, now how do i print an image?" Well i thought maybe: 
open(PRINTER,">LPT1:") or die "Can't write to LPT1: $!\n";
print PRINTER " HOLY SCHNIKES, I'M A PRINTIN'\!\n";
print PRINTER "Content-Length: $gifsize\n";
print PRINTER "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
open(GIFIMAGE, "$gif");
while (<GIFIMAGE>){print PRINTER; };
close(GIFIMAGE);
close(PRINTER);

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That didn't work, so i took of the header, still not what i wanted. So i get on the pm chatterbox, and Macphisot says try binmode FILEHANDLE, didn't work(w or w/o the header). Tye also had some suggestions, but i'll let him post an example here;)

So my questions for you guys are:
    How can i print an image directly to my printer?
    How about 'printing to a file'(*.prn)?
    How can i access/interface the printer(printing device driver)?
    And last, but not least,
    what is the pagebreak character in perl('U @' or in hex '1B 55 00 0C 1B 40' worked for my panasonic .matrix)?

"cRaZy is co01, but sometimes cRaZy is cRaZy".
                                                      - crazyinsomniac

In reply to PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1 by crazyinsomniac

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