mdog has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

OK...So I need to be able send a print request from a Win32 box to a printer hooked up to Win32 network.

I need to be able to do this via perl or even a utility that I could call via a system call. A quick scan of the available Win32 modules has yielded nothing so far and the same goes for perl monks.

It looks like someone else had this question:
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=24739&lastnode_id=864
but never got a workable answer.

Anybody know of a way?

mdog

I'm off to scour the Internet to see if there is any pertinent info.

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Re: Printing with a Win32 printer
by traveler (Parson) on Nov 27, 2001 at 05:43 UTC
    I just used this code: 
    open PRINTER, ">//SERVER/PRINTER";
while(<>){
  print PRINTER $_;
}

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    where SERVER is the name of the computer with the printer and PRINTER is the name of the printer (s/k/a "sharename"). The program above is the "poor person's lpr" :-).

    HTH, --traveler

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Re: Printing with a Win32 printer
by osfameron (Hermit) on Nov 27, 2001 at 05:10 UTC
    I think print /d:\\server\printer filename from the Win32 command line should do for text documents.

    Cheerio!
    Osfameron

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      Just found an alternative answer as well:

      From the command line:
      lpr -S 10.0.0.1 -P JD_WEB_HP5SI test.txt:

      Thanks!

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Re: Printing with a Win32 printer
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 24, 2004 at 15:59 UTC
    Hi, Coul some one help me on how I can install network printers using perl script? I need to be able to install many printers on win2k printer server. HAdam
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