Re: How to print to a printer?

On Windows, you can use

open( PRN, "> LPT1")
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open( PRN, "> //printserver/printershare" )
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which is quite useful. The only problem is that you can't check when your printer's buffer is full.

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Re: Answer: Printing to a printer by mowgli (Friar) on Feb 16, 2003 at 09:37 UTC
That obviously won't work on anything but windows-based systems. On unix systems, you'll most likely either want to pipe into lpr(1) or lp(1); as an alternative, a platform independent interface like the Printer module could be used. -- mowgli	[reply]


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