So, among many other 'gimme's, you expect the Monks to research this (implicit) OT question: 'what sort of protocol does a Brother QL-570 printer respond to?'

For that, you'll do far better asking Brother; searching their website (yes, they most definitely have one), and, if necessary, then searching farther.

As for printing with Perl -- the command print is quite well explained in documents which exist -- in almost every case -- on any computer with Perl. Try perldoc -f print at the command prompt.

Finally, feed Google "site:CPAN.org barcode" and find many modules for dealing with barcodes. Or, if you're using ActiveState's distribution, try ppm search barcode at the command prompt. For my (win32) Perl 5.12.4, that returns more than a dozen candidates, some of which may even be relevant to your needs.

In reply to Re: using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl by ww
in thread using Brother QL-570 printer with Perl by Anonymous Monk

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