Send color text to printer

[Garry Short]

Joe,

this is the same question you posted on July 31st. If you didn't get any
replies then, you're not likely to now, either. I'd suggest assuming now
that no-one here has anything relevant to say on this.

If there is an alternate module, it'll be on CPAN - go have a look.

Regards,

Garry



Joe Hasting wrote:

> I have been using the Term::ANSIColor to display color on my screen, but I
> would like to direct this color to a printer. I try to print it directly
> (see example below) but it just prints the ANSI escape sequences as
> regular
> text. Could anyone say if there is an alternate MODULE or another
> technique to print in color?
>
> thanks
> J
>
>
> use Term::ANSIColor;
>
> open(LPR, "|lpr -P agrprt166 >/dev/null 2>&1");
> print LPR "test\n";
> print LPR "test\n";
> close(LPR);
>
> open(LPR, "|lpr -P agrprt166 >/dev/null 2>&1");
> print LPR colored ("test\n", "red on_black");
> print LPR colored ("test\n", "green on_red");
> close(LPR);

[A. Sinan Unur]

"Joe Hasting" <hasting@agere.com> wrote in
news:bgofen$71r$1@alageremail2.agere.com:

> I have been using the Term::ANSIColor to display color on my screen,
> but I would like to direct this color to a printer. I try to print it
> directly (see example below) but it just prints the ANSI escape
> sequences as regular text. Could anyone say if there is an alternate
> MODULE or another technique to print in color?

You could write an ANSI terminal driver for your printer ...

I keep seeing your posts and I am completely baffled as to why you think
sending ANSI sequences to the printer should do anything.

(goes away and googles a bit and comes back)

Oh, so Amiga used to have ANSI printer drivers huh? Did not know that.

Without knowing your specific context, I am going to suggest generating
HTML, and printing that.

Sinan.
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