I have a basic html page generated through php and it prints to a printer after a link click using Ben Nadel’s print plugin. However, I don’t want the user to print the page again. I tried setting the ‘print’ link to a negative z-index using jquery after it’s being clicked, but the user can refresh the page and reuse the link so it would print again. I also know that I can somehow disable the refresh feature, by modifying what F5 does, but that would’t save the day since the user can refresh the page through the url bar, and I can’t remove/hide, it as much as I know. It also runs on localhost so the user client and server are on the same side. Even the browser doesn’t matter since I could use the one that fits this case.
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And I am not sure the requirement to print only once makes sense: a clever user may print into a PDF printer, and print on paper the “printed” PDF many times. A novice user may legitimately want to print twice or more (e.g. because he sent the printing to the wrong printer).