I would like to send a series of formated reports to the users browser. When they print them, which is why the reports are being sent, I would like the user to get reports printed on separate pages. That way I can send 15-20 (which is normal) or more per request and still have the user be able to print individual pages. Is this even possible? My favorite would be to have each report appear in it's own little window. You know, like a cascading series of windows when you open multiple files. But how?

The reports are just HTML formatted to STDOUT. Nothing fancy. I was just wondering if PERL allows us to append a control character to tell the printer to give us a newpage. Something like a formfeed, only to the local printer.

Uncle Ron

In reply to controlling a printer(physical one) by UncleRon

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