Writing to a Network Printer

[SkippySC]

Hi,

I want to write data and print this stream to a network printer. I know that if the printer was on my computer (on the LPT1 port to be precise) I could simply write formatted text with the fprintf function on the output stream stdprn.

But since my printer is a network printer, how can I print on it? Do I have to create some kind of socket connection to it?

Thanks you very much in advance, Skip.