print “Hello, World!”

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Yes, really. Print it with a hardware printer 🖨 to create a hard copy.

Send the necessary commands/data to your printer such that the following text is printed on a piece of paper:

Hello, World!

You may use any local- or network-connected printer that is available to you.

If your printer allows, you should use 8pt or greater text in black ink on white paper.

The text should appear on its own line. It may be left or right positioned as you wish.

Digital photographic/video/GIF evidence of submissions will be helpful.

If your hardware cannot do paper, but allows other exotic hardcopy production such as 3D printing, CNC machining, or printing at the atomic level, then I will happy to accept such interesting submissions.

To clarify, the question asks "Send the necessary commands/data to your printer". This means that there should be no further user input. Opening a print dialog is not sufficient. Existing answers that do this as of 10:48am PST 31st Dec 2016 will be grandfathered (but not upvoted by me).

Please supply address to which we can send submissions for verification. — steenbergh, yesterday
@steenbergh Yep - good point - Digital photographic/video/GIF evidence of submissions should be good enough. — Digital Trauma, yesterday
It's worth noting that many older printers use custom command sets. Most of these print ASCII characters literally, so if you have access to one of the printers in question (or can just claim that you do), sending Hello, World! to the printer port should be enough. — ais523, yesterday
I could swear that I tried print("Hello, World!") in the Firefox console once and it opened the print dialogue (useless because I wasn't connected to a printer in any way), but now it just returns the string... — ETHproductions, 21 hours ago
are xditview, distiller, cups-pdf and other printer simulators considered cheating? — Jasen, 18 hours ago

briantist · Answer 1 · 2016-12-31 00:18:17Z

up vote 20 down vote

PowerShell, 18 bytes

'Hello, World!'|lp

Try it online!

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Not sure the point of the TIO link. +1 anyway. – Digital Trauma 22 hours ago

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+1 for try it online – Pavel 22 hours ago

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@DigitalTrauma I thought it was funny; and it generates the post for me. You can also look at the debug output just to see that it's trying (and failing) to spool the job. :-p – briantist 22 hours ago

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@DigitalTrauma If you put your address in the input field, TIO will mail you the result. – Dennis♦ 22 hours ago

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+1 for wasting Dennis' sheets of paper – Luis Mendo 22 hours ago

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muddyfish · Answer 2 · 2016-12-30 22:36:35Z

up vote 18 down vote

Bash, 21 19 bytes

lp<<<Hello,\ World!

And there it is.

2 bytes saved thanks to Dennis!

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+1 Valid as a script. Works fine on my Mac. If you want to run it directly at the command-line you'll need to change the double-quotes to single-quotes. – Digital Trauma yesterday

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Calconym · Answer 3 · 2016-12-31 06:59:27Z

up vote 13 down vote

Python 2.7, 421 bytes

import zlib,base64,os;os.system("s=$'%s';lp<<<\"$s\""%zlib.decompress(base64.decodestring("eNqVkk1qxDAMha/yupNgwNfoDboReDPdhQRmrcNXP3bixA3tGEMesj/r5wXoq+YysUemI0BWlYgV\npTyAEDKEQSDucxLxJaj6gUVKE8BFsH2TIOM5iMyrcTIL3YnMqCH4X0TLONTwF3H04Z0XuRPeR3Wi\nxDOi1EZY7gUTWFa8s+z5kTgcnK3sBtbZQRtCt5LPDlrliKouDh5DYz07KB6COuETUL/YRthGxHqZ\nbjyWBAU8EFk6z350Yt97Dol65hxUow9i3zr8YGxFS61nB4szPqvDnS7CU/nFwYLIYczn97JsD3xt\nr+X5wT/ARNN3\n")))

Seems a bit too long? Perhaps it's a bit overcomplicated.... :P

In all seriousness, here is a shorter one:

import os;os.system("lp<<<'Hello, World!'")

Not very interesting, though.

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+1 for the nice "font" :) – Walfrat 12 hours ago

Relevant meta discussion: What additional information should be allowed in a submission? – Dennis♦ 6 hours ago

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steenbergh · Answer 4 · 2016-12-30 22:42:26Z

up vote 12 down vote

QBIC, 11 bytes

`LPRINT `_h

Almost forgot I built a 'Hello, World!' command into QBIC...

`          Starts a code literal. This used to be "$", finally changed it.
 LPRINT `  Feeds everything from ` to the next ` directly to QBasic. 
           In this case, "LPRINT" and a space
_h         Yields "Hello, World!"

Tested and found working identical to my QBasic answer:

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um.. so what's that link? Is it a language invented by you? – eis yesterday

@eis Yes, I made QBIC. The link is a Google Drive folder with all the code in it - I suck at GitHub... It's an interpreter atop of QBasic (QBIC stands for Quick Basic's Interpreter for Codegolf) and it runs in DosBox. Check out the Showcase-thread for some examples (or just open my profile's answers-page, 75% is in QBIC). WIP, so syntax and tokens occasionally get shifted. – steenbergh yesterday

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fluffy · Answer 5 · 2016-12-31 17:54:16Z

up vote 9 down vote

HTML + Javascript, 37 bytes

Hello, World!<script>print()</script>

Tested in Safari:

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This appears just to open the print dialog box and not actually send the job to the printer without further manual intervention – Digital Trauma 18 hours ago

Minor nitpick, the W in world should be capitalized. – Pavel 15 hours ago

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@DigitalTrauma JS cannot do that – Mr. Alien 12 hours ago

Also, you can shave 9 bytes off by omitting </script>. – Erik the Outgolfer 8 hours ago

Are you sure, @EriktheOutgolfer? Firefox and Chrome evaluates the script code only when the closing tag is met. – manatwork 6 hours ago

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Dennis · Answer 6 · 2016-12-30 22:24:18Z

Batch, 22 bytes

echo Hello, World!>prn

This redirects the output of the echo command to the device file PRN, meaning that it's sent directly to the default printer (usually LPT1).

I neither have a DOS machine nor a printer, so I'm afraid I can't test this right now, but I'm fairly certain I've done this back in the day. It doesn't work on Windows XP or later.

steenbergh · Answer 7 · 2016-12-30 22:07:16Z

QBasic, 21 bytes

LPRINT"Hello, World!"

LPRINT sends text directly to the printer. Unfortunately untested, DosBox doesn't natively support NET USE, so I can't reroute LPT1: to NovaPDF.

The problems I have...

UPDATE: Tested it in QB64. Resulting PDF opened in Microsoft Edge. Looks like this:

Stewie Griffin · Answer 8 · 2016-12-31 00:07:01Z

MATLAB, 40 bytes

Printing text is not something you'd normally do in Matlab, but it can be done.

text(0,0,'Hello, World!');axis off;print

text adds text description to data points in a figure. If a figure is not yet open, it will be created. The first two arguments are the coordinates of the bottom left corner of a figure.

axis off is used to get rid of the frame and axes, so that the text appears on its own line.

print prints the current figure to the default printer if no input arguments are given.

I printed this (successfully according to the dialog box) on my default printer at the office. I can retrieve it there and prove it but you'll have to wait two weeks. After changing the default to a pdf-printer, this is the output:

Neil · Answer 9 · 2016-12-31 09:49:39Z

up vote 4 down vote

ZX Spectrum BASIC, 16 bytes

LPRINT "Hello, World!"

LPRINT is a 1-byte keyword in ZX Spectrum BASIC, having codepoint 224.

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can you show a photo of the hardcopy. – Jasen 18 hours ago

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@Jasen In theory I still have the kit around, but it would be a bit of a palaver to dig it out and hook it up to an old enough TV. Sorry about that. – Neil 13 hours ago

you could probably type that command "blind". – Jasen 13 hours ago

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Rudolf L. Jelínek · Answer 10 · 2016-12-31 14:32:19Z

up vote 4 down vote

hello + lp, 9 bytes

hello|lp

hello is from the Debian package hello

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hello prints a lowercase w, as is the custom on most programming sites. (I'm not quite sure how the uppercase W became standard on PPCG.) – ais523 16 hours ago

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@ais523 I think uppercase W is standard here precisely to avoid built ins like this. – Pavel 15 hours ago

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If the capitalization is wrong, I'm afraid this is invalid. – Dennis♦ 6 hours ago

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Arnauld · Answer 11 · 2016-12-30 23:23:45Z

GFA-Basic, 22 bytes

Only tested on an Atari ST emulator with the parallel port redirected to a file. It should work on the Windows version of GFA-Basic (which is free), but this is untested.

LPRINT "Hello, World!"

Note: This turns out to be identical to the QBasic syntax.

xem · Answer 12 · 2016-12-31 14:24:36Z

up vote 2 down vote

HTML (33)

Hello, World!<svg onload=print()>

(Prompts a print window in the browser, doesn't print directly)

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Is there a reason the tag has to be <svg> specifically, or would any tag work? (Many tags have shorter names.) – ais523 14 hours ago

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afaik, only svg, img (with a valid src), iframe and body have an onload event triggered when the page is loaded. img without src triggers an onerror event. all in all, the shortest we've found is svg onload=... – xem 10 hours ago

The challenge asks for upper case W (not that it changes your byte count). – Martin Ender♦ 9 hours ago

fixed, ty...... – xem 8 hours ago

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alephalpha · Answer 13 · 2016-12-31 10:21:31Z

up vote 1 down vote

Mathematica, 29 bytes

NotebookPrint@"Hello, World!"

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obarakon · Answer 14 · 2016-12-31 16:32:19Z

up vote 1 down vote

JavaScript, 38 bytes

document.write('Hello, World!');print()

Thanks manatwork for shaving off 14 bytes!

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No need to explicitly specify window: document.write('Hello, World!');print(). Or even shorter: print(document.write('Hello, World!')). – manatwork 11 hours ago

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with ES6 you can even do: document.write`Hello, world!` (more info here: xem.github.io/articles/#webspeech) – xem 10 hours ago

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rnso · Answer 15 · 2016-12-31 13:00:25Z

up vote 0 down vote

Racket 35 bytes

(system("echo 'Hello World!'\|lp"))

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