how to send a pcl command in visual basic

[allicalila]

I have to count the pages printed in a hp printer and my program must be in visual basic i'm new in the pcl world and i don´t know how send the pcl commands to the chosen printer

THANKS

 

[yp56]

I do it in Java. You open the file LPT1 or LPT2 (but i think your printer is installed on the first paralle port -> LPT1)
and you send byte like if you fill into a normal file
that's all
I don't know the VB syntaxe but it's like that in Java :
File f = new File("LPT1"
Stream s = new Stream(f);
s.write("hello the world"
s.write(0x0D); //CR
s.write(0x0A); // LF
s.write(0x0C); // print page