Term::ANSIColor How can I print the color directly to a printer

[Joe Hasting]

I have been using Term::ANSIColor to have printed charaters on my screen,
how can I direct the ANSI escaped code to a color printer directly and have
it print in color (not print the ANSI escape codes). I tried the simple
code below. The first page comes out ok, but the second page is printed
with the escape codes. Thanks J

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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);

 

[Greg Schmidt]

I have been using Term::ANSIColor to have printed charaters on my screen,
how can I direct the ANSI escaped code to a color printer directly and have
it print in color (not print the ANSI escape codes). I tried the simple
code below. The first page comes out ok, but the second page is printed
with the escape codes. Thanks J

Does your printer support ANSI escape sequences? Does any printer?
Unless there is another module that handles this, I think you may have
to learn the printer-specific codes or else use PostScript or PCL or
some other standard that your printer understands.