RE: disabling printing of web pages?

At 12:22 14.03.01 -0600, Dennis Lapcewich wrote:

 >
 >> -----Original Message-----
 >> From: Christoph Niemann [mailto:C.Niemann(at)gmx.net]
 >> Hello,
 >> Maybe someone is able to help me:
 >> How would you keep people away from printing a web page pushing the
 >> browser's print button or via the pop up menu after RMC?
 >> I know it is easily possible with a screen shot. But I have
 >> web pages with highly compressed JPG photos and I offer my customers
 >> and friends CD-ROMs with these photos as high quality TIF files.
 >> Nevertheless they start printing the pages and are complaining about
 >> the bad quality. Since these people are inexperienced users they
 >> don't know about screen shots and would rather order a (free!!) CD
 >> when simple printing is impossible.
 >> Does one of you gurus know a HTML command or Java script?

 >If it shows up on a web page, it's in the browser cache.  If it's in the
 >browser cache, it can be printed.  You can disable page caching if you want
 >(not a good idea with a graphic-intensive page), just as you can disable the
 >print button, but that still will not stop someone from grabbing the JPG if
 >they want.

How would I disable the print button?
TIA

Chris

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