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I have been searching for several weeks now how best to approach something we have been asked to come up with and it seems that it should be simple but I have yet to find a suitable answer. I want to print from Sharepoint WSS 3 with the ability to add a custom header and footer without the default header and footer from IE. I had hoped that there would be a way to use C# code to do this, but I am just not finding anything that points me in the right direction. Is it possible to build a print function that will do this and if so, please point me to any examples that may be available.

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I am nearly positive that this cannot be done in IE without the user altering the Page Setup. You may want to consider using a "Printable Version" link that simply redirects the user to a dynamically created PDF version of the content.

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It sounds like you want one header and footer to display when someone is browsing a page, but you want a different header and footer to display when printing the page.

For this, I would recommend using CSS media types. This will instruct the browser to use one stylesheet when viewing and a different stylesheet when printing. Here is some more information: http://webdesign.about.com/cs/css/a/aa042103a.htm

Tim
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Will these templates overwrite IE print templates. I thought that you would still get the annoying IE header/footer when using these. I will look into this in more depth. Thanks! – spevilgenius Jun 29 '10 at 12:27
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Using CSS and Javascript you can grab the contents of a content container and send it to a new window with the additional content (header/footer) added. You should be able to build this into a Web Part that is deployed to the pages that require it.

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I did look at this as an option, but it still prints through IE right? – spevilgenius Jun 29 '10 at 17:30
This method would print through IE – Mike Oryszak Jun 29 '10 at 18:46
What I meant was the default header and footer of IE would still show up on the print out and the requirement is that they do not. – spevilgenius Jun 29 '10 at 19:58
In the window.open() call you can control what gets displayed and what does not. You can turn off the toolbars, URL, etc. javascript-coder.com/window-popup/javascript-window-open.phtml – Mike Oryszak Jun 29 '10 at 20:43
I know how to do that part and thanks for the link to that. I think what I am missing is how this will allow the printing of my custom header/footer info without printing the IE header/footer info like the url and page x of y in our intranet. You are being extremely helpful which I do appreciate. – spevilgenius Jun 29 '10 at 21:18

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