Printer Object

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The Printer object handles existing printers and print jobs.

Members Table

The following table lists the members provided by the Printer object.

Members

Collections	Description
Printers	Available printers.
Properties	Description
AllowPrinting	Whether printing is allowed.
DefaultPrinter	Name of the default printer.
InstalledPrinterCount	Number of printers installed in the Windows system.
ManagedPrinterCount	Number of printers managed by SiteKiosk.
Methods	Description
FindPrinter	Returns a printer object by name.
Events	Description
OnChangedJob	Fires when a print job property changed.
OnChangedPrinter	Fires when a printer property changed.
OnDeletedJob	Fires when a print job has been deleted.
OnDeletedPrinter	Fires when a printer has been deleted.
OnNewJob	Fires when a new print job has been created.
OnNewPrinter	Fires when a new printer is available.
OnPrinterActivityDetected	Fires when SiteKiosk detects a webbrowser print job.
OnShowPrintDialog	Fires when the SiteKiosk print dialog is displayed.

Remarks

This object is available through the main object SiteKiosk. Use the Printer object to control existing printers and print jobs.
To create a job, use the SiteKioskWindow.SiteKioskWebBrowser.Print method.

Note that the path of a file using SiteKiosk objects must be allowed in the
SiteKiosk configuration (Security -> Access -> URL's With Script Permission)
if it is not a browser skin file.

Examples

The following example returns whether printing is allowed.

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> window.external.InitScriptInterface(); alert(SiteKiosk.Printer.AllowPrinting); </SCRIPT>

Applies to

SiteKiosk v6.2 (and later versions).

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