Automatically Print Image from Website

Question

A coworker and I were having a discussion about what is and isn\'t possible within the browser.

Then a question came up that neither of us could answer with certaint

Answer 1

You have to prompt the user to print the current page, there's no way to bypass this step (possibly in activeX for IE). That said, there's two different ways you could prompt the user to print images of you smiling when the page is loaded.

Here's how to do it in JavaScript.

window.onload = function() {
  var img = window.open("me-smiling.png");
  img.print();
}

And here's how to do it in css/javascript/html (assuming your picture has the id 'me-smiling'): CSS:

@media print {
   * {
     display:none;
   }
   img#me-smiling {
     display:block;
   }
}

Javascript:

 window.onload = function() { window.print() }