Google Chrome Extension: Print the page silently

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Sai Prasad picture Sai Prasad · Jan 31, 2011 · Viewed 28.2k times · Source

I'm developing an internal Google Chrome Extension that needs a way to initiate print the current page to the printer. I do not want the default Print dialog to come up (so, javascript:window.print() is out of question).

As far as I understand, this is not possible just with the JS + HTML plug-in, so I'm also open to using the NPAPI plugin also (with a dummy mime-type). And I'm concerned for Windows platform only.

I'm also open for various hacks / workarounds if possible, though a standard solution would be nice.

If you think this is not possible, let me know if you know any feature request logged for it?

Any suggestions/clarifications are welcome..

Answer

printminion picture printminion · Feb 17, 2012

In chrome (v18+) we have the --kiosk --kiosk-printing switches. One can print automatically to default printer without print confirmation.

You can see it from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6UHjuvI7IE

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