Plugin for Cordova to print documents, photos, HTML and plain text from iOS, Android and Windows Universal apps.
cordova.plugins.printer.print('<b>Hello Cordova!</b>');
- Apple AirPrint
- Android Print
- Windows Print
- HTML
- Text
- Base64
- Images
- Android 4.4+
- iOS 10+
- Windows 10 UWP
- Browser
The plugin creates the object cordova.plugins.printer
and is accessible after the deviceready event has been fired.
document.addEventListener('deviceready', function () {
// cordova.plugins.printer is now available
}, false);
Prints the contents of the web view:
cordova.plugins.printer.print();
Plain text:
cordova.plugins.printer.print("Hello\nWorld!");
HTML & CSS:
cordova.plugins.printer.print('<h1>Hello World!</h1>');
Images, PDF and other documents:
cordova.plugins.printer.print('file://img/logo.png');
Base64 encoded content:
cordova.plugins.printer.print('base64://...');
Note: On the browser platform the plugin only supports to print the contents of the web view.
It's possible to pass format options to the print method that overrides the defaults:
cordova.plugins.printer.print(content, options, callback);
The defaults are defined as follows:
cordova.plugins.printer.setDefaults({ monochrome: true });
The list of possible options depend on the platform, the content type and the capabilities of the printer.
Name | Description | Type | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
name | The name of the print job and of the document. | String | all |
copies | The number of copies for the print task. | Number | iOS Windows |
pageCount | Limits the pages to print even the document contains more. To skip the last n pages you can assign a negative value on iOS. |
Number | iOS Android |
duplex | Either double-sided on short site (duplex:'short'), double-sided on long site (duplex:'long') or single-sided (duplex:'none'). | String | all |
orientation | The orientation of the printed content, portrait or landscape . |
String | all |
monochrome | If your application only prints black text, setting this property to true can result in better performance in many cases. | Boolean | all |
photo | Set to true to change the media type to photography for higher quality. | Boolean | iOS Windows |
autoFit | Set to false to disable downscaling the image to fit into the content aread. | Boolean | Android |
printer | The network URL to the printer. | String | iOS |
maxHeight maxWidth |
Defines the maximum size of the content area. | Unit | iOS |
margin | Set to false to avoid margins. | Boolean | all |
margin.top margin.left margin.right margin.bottom |
The margins for each printed page. Each printer might have its own minimum margins depends on media type and paper format. | Unit | iOS |
ui.hideNumberOfCopies | Set to true to hide the control for the number of copies. | Boolean | iOS |
ui.hidePaperFormat | Set to true to hide the control for the paper format. | Boolean | iOS |
ui.top ui.left |
The position of the printer picker. | Number | iPad |
ui.height ui.width |
The size of the printer picker. | Number | iPad |
paper.width paper.height |
The dimensions of the paper – iOS will will try to choose a format which fits bests. | Unit | iOS |
paper.name | The name of the format like IsoA4 or Roll22Inch .https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.graphics.printing.printmediasize |
String | Windows |
paper.length | On roll-fed printers you can decide when the printer cuts the paper. | Unit | iOS |
font.name | The name of the font family | String | iOS |
font.size | The size of the font | Number | iOS Android |
font.italic font.bold |
Set to true to enable these font traits. | Boolean | iOS |
font.align | Possible alignments are left , right , center and justified . |
String | iOS |
font.color | The color of the font in hexa-decimal RGB format - "FF0000" means red. |
String | iOS |
header.height footer.height |
The height of the header or footer on each page. | Unit | iOS |
header.labels footer.labels |
An array of labels to display. Only use if there are more then one. | Array | iOS |
header.label.text footer.label.text |
The plain text to display. Use %ld to indicate where to insert the page index.For example "Page %ld" would result into "Page 1" , "Page 2" , ... |
String | iOS |
header.label.top header.label.right header.label.left header.label.bottom footer.label.* |
The relative position where to place the label within the footer or header area. | Unit | iOS |
header.label.font footer.label.font |
The font attributes for the label. | Object | iOS |
header.label.showPageIndex footer.label.showPageIndex |
Set to true if you want to display the page index. |
Boolean | iOS |
The Unit
type can be either a (float) number or a string with a special suffix.
- Supported unit suffixes are
in
for inches,mm
for millimeters,cm
for centimeters andpt
for points "2in"
are two inches whereas2.0
or"2.0pt"
are identical for two points- One inch are 72.0 points
For iOS its possible to send the content directly to the printer without any dialog. Todo so pass the network URL as an option:
cordova.plugins.printer.print(content, { printer: 'ipp://...' });
To let the user pick an available printer:
cordova.plugins.printer.pick(function (url) {});
It's possible to specify the position of the picker:
cordova.plugins.printer.pick({ top: 40, left: 30 }, callback);
Note: By passing an invalid URL, the application will throw an Unable to connect to (null)
exception and possibly crash.
The list of supported document types differ between mobile platforms. As of writing, Windows UWP only supports HTML and plain text.
To get a list of all printable document types:
cordova.plugins.printer.getPrintableTypes(callback);
To check if printing is supported in general:
cordova.plugins.printer.canPrintItem(callback);
Or in particular:
cordova.plugins.printer.canPrintItem('file://css/index.css', callback);
var options = {
font: {
size: 22,
italic: true,
align: 'center'
},
header: {
height: '6cm',
label: {
text: "\n\nDie Freuden",
font: {
bold: true,
size: 37,
align: 'center'
}
}
},
footer: {
height: '4cm',
label: {
text: 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, deutscher Dichter, Naturforscher',
font: { align: 'center' }
}
}
};
cordova.plugins.printer.print("Es flattert um die Quelle\nDie wechselnde Libelle,...", options);
The result will look like this for iOS:
Execute from the projects root folder:
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-printer
Or install a specific version:
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-printer@VERSION
Or install the latest head version:
$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-printer.git
Or install from local source:
$ cordova plugin add <path> --nofetch --nosave
Then execute:
cordova build
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request
This software is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
Made with 😋 from Leipzig
© 2013 appPlant GmbH