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Asked: 2026-05-12T13:35:30+00:00

I need to print relatively complex layouts to networked/shared printers with Perl and I

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I need to print relatively complex layouts to networked/shared printers with Perl and I haven’t had any luck finding modules or examples to help me in the task. Does anyone have any links that could help me out?

I presume that what I want to do will work as Postscript.

update: Ok, I don’t really need help with how to generate PDF or Postscript. I’m sure that’s well documented. What I want to know is, what do I use to send a PDF to a printer in windows from perl.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I still need to learn postscript or something, but I found that the following works:

    use autodie;
use File::Copy;
copy 'C:\\frew.ps', '\\\\oxygen\\HPLJ5100 PCL6';

    Not too complicated. This seems to work better than opening the printer and printing to it.

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