"Here is a node that might help: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=678462."

Unfortunately that was my node from 2008 when I was porting the code from Unix to Windows. I have never managed to get the Win32:Printer method to work with a text file. The currently working printer does not use that functionality.

"Windows is heavily dependent upon settings that must be 'correctly' made elsewhere."

That is what I am hoping to find. Other "elsewhere" locations that Window's printer settings can be made. Because the ones I know about and have looked at are not apparently controlling the current printer.