Re: Raw Data to Printer on Win XP

I don't think there are any modules available to do this, but if you are prepared to drop to using Win32::API (or Inline::C or XS), then it is fairly simple to do using native calls.

The code you would need is documented here.

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Re^2: Raw Data to Printer on Win XP by dvergin (Monsignor) on Sep 29, 2004 at 22:51 UTC
Hmmm... "it is fairly simple" for some definition of 'simple' involving 55 lines of example code. (Not all of which may be neccessary to my current purpose.) That's a little more work than I was hoping for, but I suppose I could get invested in doing that with Win32::API under the heading of "write once use many". But sheesh! All I want to do is squirt a few lines of text at the printer. Someone please take me back to linux and: echo "Hello World!" \| lpr -oraw But anyway, thanks for the lead. If nothing more straight-forward comes to light. I'll probably end up using this approach. Much gnashing of teeth is heard...	[reply]

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Re^2: Raw Data to Printer on Win XP
by dvergin (Monsignor) on Sep 29, 2004 at 22:51 UTC

it is fairly simple

That's a little more work than I was hoping for, but I suppose I could get invested in doing that with Win32::API under the heading of "write once use many".

But sheesh! All I want to do is squirt a few lines of text at the printer. Someone please take me back to linux and:

      echo "Hello World!" | lpr -oraw

But anyway, thanks for the lead. If nothing more straight-forward comes to light. I'll probably end up using this approach. Much gnashing of teeth is heard...

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