I did a cursory scan through the Introduction of the document, and that pointed me at the "Examples" section. If I read correctly, you format your document using their mark-up language(ZPL) and then "save the document and copy it to the printer" (one assumes they mean drag-and-drop, since it appears to be a Windows only device). So, you might be able to send the command string to the printer using print(). It would be worth a try. (If this particular brand of bar-code printers is fairly popular in the Wild, this might well be a good module to develop for CPAN.)
Good luck, let us know what you find out.
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Sounds like Intermec Print Language. We use some Intermec printers at work, but mostly with stored labels and mostly via Delphi/Windows and nearly always over the serial port (using an in-house rs232 module). We have one system that uses Perl on HP-UX with the serial port. It writes the label data to a file and then does a system call to read the file with the 'cat' command and pipe the output of that cat command to the 'cu' utility, which does all the talking to the printer.
For a windows environment, I suppose you could do something similar by building your label up and then telling the shell to write it to the serial port.
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Just use the printer as a "Generic Text Printer" and print to the com port as a string of text.
Use the examples by the copy or type method:
type example.txt > com1:
And base your perl script on how well the sample files you copy to the printer.
Also pay attention to the fonts used, not all are stored on the printer.
Dave
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