According to the M$ documentation and other sites I have found the following code should cause test.html to be sent to the printer. I get no errors but nothing prints either (which is technically an error, I guess). Any help? 
use strict;
use Win32::API;
print printFile("G:\\dev\\win32\\test.html");
################
sub printFile{
    #call shellExecute with the print verb to print a file
    #    http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en
+-us/dnarvb4/html/msdn_shelexec.asp
    my $file=shift || return -1;
    if(!-e $file){return "$file does not exist";}
    print "printing $file\n";
    my $ShellExecute = new Win32::API("shell32", "ShellExecuteA", ['N'
+,'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'I'], 'N') || return 0;
    my $rtn=$ShellExecute->Call(
        0,         #hwnd
        "Print", #open or print. 'open' opens file specified (exe or d
+oc file). 'print' prints doc file
        $file,     #cmd to execute or file to open
        "",    #Parameters to be passed to application, should be null
+ if document
        "",    #default directory
        1    #Show state: 0=hide(SW_HIDE),1=normal(SW_SHOWNORMAL),6=mi
+nimized(SW_MINIMIZE),3=maximized(SW_MAXIMIZE)
        );
    if($rtn<33){return $rtn;}
    else{return $rtn;}
    }

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