I'm using PAXAR's proprietary language, I think they call it PCL or NCL.

The string that includes the ~ character
$Port->write('{I,E,"~123~044~034~124~125~126~094"|}');

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is exactly what the PAXAR printer is expecting (copied directly from their user manual)to turn on what they call "Immediate Commands". The Immediate Commands allow for the "^E" (this is the polling character) to post an empty "write" to the port, which then puts the printer status on the port to be read.

I don't think Win32::SerialPort does anything with the ~. As far as I can tell it just treats the entire string (including the ~) as a string.

The following lines of code are more examples of the PCL and are to just simply print the word CARTON on a label.
$record_to_print = $record_to_print.'{F,26,A,R,E,600,400,"FMT26"|';
$record_to_print = $record_to_print.'C,400,50,0,50,16,16,O,L,0,0,"CART
+ON",0|}';
$record_to_print = $record_to_print.'{B,26,N,1|}';

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Thanks for your reply and your time...

In reply to Re^2: No response from printer using Win32::SerialPort by woodycm
in thread No response from printer using Win32::SerialPort by woodycm

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