Dear monks, I'm having problems printing graphs to a web-page from my cgi script. I'm creating the graphs with GD::Graph but when they are displayed on the web I get a load of gibberish like this:

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Can anyone tell me whats wrong with the script? The graph is created and printed to file.gif, but is not displayed on my cgi webpage.
Thanks! 

@data = (
    ["1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th", "8th", "9th"],
    [    1,    2,    5,    6,    3,  1.5,    1,     3,     4]
  );
                                                                      
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my $graph = GD::Graph::points->new(400, 300);
                                                                      
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  $graph->set(
      x_label           => 'X Label',
      y_label           => 'Y label',
      title             => 'Some simple graph',
      y_max_value       => 8,
      y_tick_number     => 8,
      y_label_skip      => 2
  ) or die $my_graph->error;
                                                                      
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  my $gd = $graph->plot(\@data) or die $my_graph->error;
  open(IMG, '>file.gif') or die $!;
  binmode IMG;
  print IMG $gd->png;
  close IMG;
  binmode STDOUT;
  print $gd->png;

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