Disable Print button

[Nate]

I need to disable the print capability on the browser. How do I do this?

TIA
Nate

[Kris Eiben]

Easy answer: walk over to the user's desk and turn off his printer.

And, I'm pretty sure that's the only real answer. You can use
Javascript to open a new window without the button bar or menus, and
disable right-clicking, but then he can disable Javascript and bring up
the cached page. And even if you then write out the contents of the
page from Javascript, so he has to have it enabled -- which sounds
extremely kludgey and difficult to maintain -- and keep that page out of
the cache, he can always hit the "print screen" button, which afaik
cannot be disabled by browser script. If someone is really determined
to print your page, you really can't stop him.

If you're satisfied with a solution that'll just keep people who don't
know how to disable Javascript from printing, then check the Javascript
FAQs at irt.org for examples of how to do all of the above.

"Nate" <nkane@enak.com> wrote in message news:3cec0295@10.1.10.29...
>
> I need to disable the print capability on the browser. How do I do
this?

[Harish Kumar]

Nate,

There are 2 ways you can do this -

A) If you can execute command-line method - then you can run IE in kiosk
mode.

That is if you run "iexplore" from command line, it will open a new IE browser.
If you run "iexplore" with "k" switch like -

iexplore -k

it will open IE sans any menu. The downside is this is not the best way to
do this. You really cannot take active role in controlling the IE.

B) The better way would be using WSH. For example, the following script will
open a browser and will pass a URL for the browser to display -

dim ObjBrow
set objBrow = WScript.CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application")
objBrow.Toolbar = false
objBrow.Navigate "http://news.devx.com"
objBrow.Visible = True

WSH comes installed with Windows 98 and Windows 2000. For Windows 95 & Windows
NT, you need to download WSH from - http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting

BTW, why do you want to do this?

Harish

"Nate" <nkane@enak.com> wrote:
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>I need to disable the print capability on the browser. How do I do this?
>
>TIA
>Nate

Thanks,

I am creating an Employee Evaluation web app for one of my clients. They
have asked that all printouts be handled by the HR department.

Nate

"Harish Kumar" <HarishM@MailCity.Com> wrote:
>
>Nate,
>
>There are 2 ways you can do this -
>
>A) If you can execute command-line method - then you can run IE in kiosk
>mode.
>
>That is if you run "iexplore" from command line, it will open a new IE browser.
>If you run "iexplore" with "k" switch like -
>
>iexplore -k
>
>it will open IE sans any menu. The downside is this is not the best way
to
>do this. You really cannot take active role in controlling the IE.
>
>B) The better way would be using WSH. For example, the following script
will
>open a browser and will pass a URL for the browser to display -
>
>dim ObjBrow
>set objBrow = WScript.CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application")
>objBrow.Toolbar = false
>objBrow.Navigate "http://news.devx.com"
>objBrow.Visible = True
>
>WSH comes installed with Windows 98 and Windows 2000. For Windows 95 & Windows
>NT, you need to download WSH from - http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting
>
>BTW, why do you want to do this?
>
>Harish
>
>"Nate" <nkane@enak.com> wrote:
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>>I need to disable the print capability on the browser. How do I do this?
>>
>>TIA
>>Nate
>