***Possible to disable PRINTING from a SPECIFIC internet site.***

[AE86Lover]

I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter, but at our company, we want to disable printing only for one particular site. Now, we do not want to disable printing from the INTERNET as a whole, but only one particular site because essentially, the data they are printing out is VERY TOPIC SENSITIVE and we DO NOT want it distributed at all.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[episodic]

It is best it isn't on the internet at all.

I know I have a modest set of computer abilities probably shared by 10's of thousands here at Anandtech alone, and I will say without a doubt - if I can see it on my monitor, I can print it.

There are some javascript things out there that will disable printing in Internet Explorer. This will only deter newbs. All you gotta do is load it in Firefox, or most any alternate browser and at the most turn off scripting - and then voila - printable.

You could publish it as a pdf with printing support disabled. That would slow someone. If they really wanted it, they'd simply use the 'printscreen' button to cut and paste. If the information was valuable, a determined person could use screenscraping software and image editing software to reassemble it exactly as it appeared.

 

[MrChad]

Is this a third party site or an internal site?

 

[AE86Lover]

third party site.

 

[mryellow2]

Do you own the documents that are being printed? Do you own the third-party site that is hosting the documents? If these documents are that sensitive they should not be on the internet at all (as mentioned above). Like episodic said, if it's displayed on the monitor it can be reproduced one way or another.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

PrintScreen or copy and paste. People will find a way around it if they want to.

 

[AE86Lover]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
PrintScreen or copy and paste. People will find a way around it if they want to.

i know.. i just want to make it inconvenient as possible and also, most of the ppl are NOOBS. They don't know a lot about computers.

 

[xtknight]

Use a Screen codec under a media player that only uses overlay to display video. That would certainly stop any newbie and likely any determined person as well. When you print it there would just be black in the area, just like if you tried to screenshot it. Better yet, restrict read access to the document.

You could also catch the onBeforePrint handler of IE, though I don't know that this exists on any other browser you may be using: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dom+onbeforeprint&btnG=Search

(You should also handle onContextMenu and onSelectStart.)

Just don't blame anyone if your page is still able to be printed because it's impossible to prevent every way of doing it.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Use a Screen codec under a media player that only uses overlay to display video. That would certainly stop any newbie and likely any determined person as well. When you print it there would just be black in the area, just like if you tried to screenshot it. Better yet, restrict read access to the document.

You could also catch the onBeforePrint handler of IE, though I don't know that this exists on any other browser you may be using: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dom+onbeforeprint&btnG=Search

(You should also handle onContextMenu and onSelectStart.)

Just don't blame anyone if your page is still able to be printed because it's impossible to prevent every way of doing it.

Fraps or Camstasia - save to avi. Extract images.

 

[Talcite]

Or just use a digi cam and print the photos 0.o Even the most inexperienced computer users would know how to do that...