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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:55:50+00:00

I have a print page that opens in a new tab or window. The

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I have a print page that opens in a new tab or window. The resulting page opens a print dialog. After the user makes a selection on the print dialog, the page then closes the tab/window.

window.print();
window.close();

This used to work great in the major browsers, but one of the latest versions of Chrome breaks this (i.e. 14.0.835.202).

I receive the following message from what I guess is the chrome print plugin: “Print preview failed”.

Does anyone have a solution to close the Chrome tab/window after printing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think there are any standardised print events. IE has a couple, but I realise that doesn’t help you for Chrome.

    I think you might be left with only two options. A manual close button or some form of delay using setTimeout.

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