printing thru TCPIP

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Ji,
i tried to use tcpclient to send a series of PCL command to a printer, but
after going thru this, it print out a series of junk...the same series work
well with another code i written for parallel...pls advise??

Public Function PrintChunkTCPIP (ByVal Chunk As String) As Long
Dim x As Integer
Dim client As New System.Net.Sock ets.TcpClient(" 169.254.192.155 ",
9100)

' Get a client stream for reading and writing.
' Stream stream = client.GetStrea m();
Dim stream As System.Net.sock ets.NetworkStre am = client.GetStrea m()
Dim data As [Byte]() = System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII.Get Bytes(Chunk)

' Send the message to the connected TcpServer.
stream.Write(da ta, 0, data.Length)
data = New [Byte](256) {}

' String to store the response ASCII representation.
Dim responseData As [String] = [String].Empty

' Read the first batch of the TcpServer response bytes.
Dim bytes As Int32 = stream.Read(dat a, 0, data.Length)
responseData = System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII.Get String(data, 0, bytes)
Me.Text = "Received: {0}" + responseData

' Close everything.
client.Close()
End Function