Headers printing in Google Chrome
Posted in Technicalon Sep 11, 2008
Google Chrome did a reasonable job at rending the pages, but it has one problem. It wants to print headers on the top and bottom of all the pages including: the url, the page title, the date, and the page number. For my print job, I don’t want to reveal all that information, and I would prefer to print my pages without it.
In Firefox, I am given a Page Setup option from the File menu where I can customize headers, footers, and margins for printing. I cannot find any such option in Google Chrome.
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5 Comments
Jim Jacobs
September 20th, 2008 at 4:46 am
I agree. Our application also requires the ability to remove the headers and footers. We print customer receipts and labels on narrow paper on specialized printers. Every other browser (IE, FF, Opera, Safari) works correctly. Chrome’s headers and footers wrap around, causing extra lines and form feeds. I’ve written to the Google development team several times suggesting that if they’re serious about creating a browser for business applications through the web, the ability to allow an application to format the printed page is crucial, not just a nicety.
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January 14th, 2009 at 11:52 am
[...] No page settings for printing. Normally, when a page prints, there are additional headers and footers such as page number, date, title, and web page addresses. In some cases this may be helpful, but in other cases I may not want this, such as when I’m printing off a web-based document for distribution to others. Google Chrome has no way to customize these page headers for printing. Having customizable page headers is important for a web browser that wishes to be a framework for applications that may want the user to print. [...]
Jon Stevens
February 11th, 2009 at 6:03 am
I will add that we have now switched to Chrome for most of our work, but the inability to modify/exclude the print headers still requires us to fall back on IE for our receipt printing. I hope Google address this soon.
Steve
March 24th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Amen to the above.
We print bin ticket labels from a web page, with barcodes, and Chrome is out of the options. Firefox is working great for us as it let’s us decide what we want to print.
Ciro Faienza
May 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am
It would also be nice to be able to set the margins of the print. As it stands, Chrome prints web pages with an absurd 2-inch border, which none of my other browsers do. I get that some people might prefer it, but I’m used to the way other browsers render a page for print, and Chrome’s print margins result in a huge waste of paper.