Printing textual data from browser

[Jeevan Sunkersett]

Hi,

Ours is a web based (Struts, Spring, Hibernate) application.
In a particular use case, print-receipt; we pull up data from database and display it a new window ... followed by a javascriptLwindow.print()

To print the content.

But this prints the browser window - in graphic mode.

The target printer, attached to the browser machine is a Dot matrix printer; and consumes a lot off time to print a single window (because of the graphic nature)

Can the printing be done in text mode ?

thank you.
jeevan

[Bear Bibeault]

You can either:

Use CSS to control what gets printed.

Instead of window.print(), have the link serve a PDF of just the data you want to print.

[Pete Nelson]

I don't know that JSP will offer you much in terms of client-side printing. However ...

Depending on the Browser you are using, you may be able to take advantage of CSS to change the way the page prints.

Here's a good starting point for CSS for print media - http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp

[Jeevan Sunkersett]

HI,

for the benefit of everyone, this solution worked for me;

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?p=1125268

~jeevan