Is PHP a good language to work with images?

Hello! I need to print an image file, but I'm having some problems. I have a handler to a printer witch I can print text correctly with the printer_write function. I can also print an image if it is in bmp format (printer_draw_bmp), however, I want to print png files. $im = imagecreatefrompng($url) $handler = printer_open("PATH_TO_PRINTER"); if($handler){ printer_write($handler,$im); printer_close($handler); } else{ //ERROR } In this example I can't print, because printer_write function just prints text. How can I print an image file? Thank you!