Most likely, you'll need to change the text encoding before you print it. The Linux codepage is configurable, though iso-8859-1 is probably most common in English speaking countries.

Going to a Samba share, you'll likely need to re-encode the string into codepage 437; the standard DOS code page.

use Encode;

my $string = 'αινσϊ ρρρρ';
my $enc_string = encode('cp437', $string);

print PRN $enc_string;
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