Dear Monks

I need to print directly to a printer connected to my PC.
Somewhere on your site I found information that led me to believe
this is done by a command of
open(PRN, ">LPT1") - if the printer is connected to LPT1 of the PC being used
or open(PRN, '>\\printserver\printershare') if the printer is
connected to a printer on the network.
Therefore I wrote the follwing code

use strict "vars";
use Win32;
my ($port_name, $port_name_use, $res_file_open, $page_item);
print "\ngive port name for Zebra printer (eg LPT1/USB001) ";
$port_name = <STDIN>;
chomp($port_name);
$port_name_use = '>' . $port_name;
print "port name to be used is $port_name_use\n";
$res_file_open = open(PRN, $port_name_use)  ;
if($res_file_open == 1) {
$page_item = 0;
        while ($page_item < 3) {
                $page_item +=1;
                print PRN "page $page_item\n";
                print PRN "line 2\n";
                print PRN "line 3\f";
        }
        close(PRN);
} else {
        print "could not open zebra printer on port $port_name\n";
}

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Sadly this just treats the name in the open as a file therefore nothing is sent to
the printer.

What changes do I have to do so that I can print directly to the printer connected to my PC?

In reply to Printing directly to a printer by merrymonk

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