How to stop user from printing webpages? using javascript or jquery

Question

How can we stop users to print webpage using different methods?

1. Disabling Right Click
2. Disabling CtrlP combination of keys
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Answer 1

There's just no reliable way to do this. You can intercept certain key presses etc and cancel them using script but when the user has script disabled then there's no prevention. Also, the print functionality is built into the actual browser itself, you can't actually prevent this.

Even browser plugins such as Aviary will grab a screenshot of the browser and copy it into memory so you wouldn't be able to prevent this happening. The user could then just print from photoshop or paint .net etc.

The only thing I would suggest you try is that you can include a print.css only stylesheet. Within that stylesheet you may wish to try setting any sensitive content as display:none. However, even this is not guaranteed as the user could simply disable stylesheets.