Print Restriction

[andjohnson]

Hi all,

I am looking for a way to do one or both of the following things on a website:

-restrict a user to printing a page/image only once
-Send a command to their printer to print an image/file/page without actually showing the user the image/file/page

I don't really care what coding language it is done in. Any ideas on how to attempt this?

Thanks.

[NogDog]

Nope. Your web page has no way of knowing what I'm doing with my printer, and your webserver being able to write directly to my printer (or any other device) would be a huge security hole.

[pcthug]

Huge security holes? Sounds like IE :)

[felgall]

The only way to make web page content unprintable is to not put it on the web. You can set up stylesheets to default the page to not being able to print but anyone can override that with their own stylesheet in their browser.