Hello anyone that looks into this.
I found a different avenue that did exactly what I needed along with forwarding the serial data to a printer. In this case I used PYTHON.
There is a modified version of pyserial's serial_tcp_redirect.py available online. This version allows the user to set up a remote host that can accept the serial data via Ethernet.In this case a printer using port 9100 raw telnet.
I was able to add the file.write option to append the serial data to a file with all PCL characters.
I added these lines:
logfile = open("/home/testwrite.txt","a")
logfile.write("%s"%data)
print "%r" %data #original part of program
logfile.close()