[ic] lpr within a usertag

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 11:51:09 EST 2008


> > I'm able to print from my remote IC machine to my local printer server
> > with 'lpr file.pdf' but I'm having trouble making it work within an IC
> > usertag.  I'm using the following to test it:
> >
> > Usertag print Order
> > Usertag print Routine <<EOR
> > sub {
> >         'lpr /catalogpath/file.pdf';
> > }
> > EOR
> >
> > I've also tried specifying just file.pdf without the absolute path but
> > neither works.  There is nothing in either error.log.  Does anyone see
> > what's wrong here?
>
> Not that this is a great way to do this, but try using backticks (`)
> instead of single quotes (').
>
> See Net::Printer
> <http://search.cpan.org/~cfuhrman/Net-Printer-1.04/lib/Net/Printer.pm>
> for a better solution.

Why do you prefer Net::Printer over 'lpr file.pdf'?

- Grant


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