Print settings

SiteKiosk allows you to control all print jobs initiated on one or several (!) network printers. You will also be able to charge your customers for each page they print on a specific printer.
Please note that some printers have problems with the printer monitoring and e.g. calculate the number of printed pages wrong (such printers are listed at the end of this page).

If using printers connected locally, you will only need to ensure that the local printer is set up as the default Windows printer. If you installed your printer after installing SiteKiosk, please refer to note no. 6 (see "Notes and tips" at the end of this page).

For more information on how to install local printers and network printers, click here...

 

Browser Print Options

The following options are available for the SiteKiosk browser ONLY! They do not apply to any other application!


	Enabling this option will display the PRINT button in the toolbar of the SiteKiosk browser. Please note: Disabling this option does not mean that printing is not possible anymore. If you like to restrict printing then please enable and configure the printer monitoring (below).
Show Print Button

Page Setup
Use the button "Page Setup" to personalize the header and footer of the printed page to, for example, include your company name in the page header. You can also setup the margins (inch based values, 1 inch equals 2.54 cm), note that SiteKiosk uses the IE margin settings by default.

1. Default entry header: &w&bPage &p of &P
2. Default entry footer: &u&b&d
3. Appropriate margin values (inch): 0.75

Printing behavior


• Show SiteKiosk Print Dialog Box
  The print dialog box of the SiteKiosk browser provides a large number of setting options without being as prone to manipulation as the print dialog box of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. We recommend enabling this option if you want to allow any user interaction in connection with printing Web pages.
• Show Standard Internet Explorer Print Dialog Box
  If, for some reason, the SiteKiosk print dialog box should not come up to your requirements, you can display the standard Internet Explorer print dialog box by turning on this option.
• Print webpage as laid out on screen (without user interaction)
  SiteKiosk will print the currently displayed Web page without showing the print dialog box. Web pages (including pages containing frames) will be printed as laid out on the screen.
• Automatically Print Largest Frame (without user interaction) (recommended)
  SiteKiosk will directly print the currently displayed Web page without displaying the print dialog box. For pages containing frames, SiteKiosk will ONLY print the frame containing most of the content. What this means is that the page will be printed without the navigation bar (i.e. the page will usually contain the content displayed on the main page).

 

Printer Monitoring

Note: Turn on Printer Monitoring if you want to limit, monitor, and/or charge for printing.


All installed printers
The parameters adjusted under All installed printers will apply to ALL available printers that have NOT specifically been added by means of the ADD button, which is shown in the list.
Thus, if you want the SiteKiosk printer settings to apply to all printers, you will not have to add a new printer.

ADD
If you want to define printer settings that are different from the default values (e.g. a different print charge per page), you will have to ADD the printer for which the settings are supposed to apply. To do so, simply select the desired printer from the list of available printers. Should your printer be missing from this list, you will have to set up your printer first before it can be used by the system.

EDIT
for more information on this option, please refer to item 3...

 

EDIT (Printer Settings)

Monitor Printer and make available through SiteKiosk Object Model
This option is explained here.

Show Printer in SiteKiosk Print Dialog Box
This option will not be available unless you selected "Show SiteKiosk Print Dialog Box." Turn off this checkbox to prevent your users from selecting this printer. You might want to do so if you connected a receipt printer for printing automatic receipts rather than Web sites.

User must confirm print jobs
All issued print jobs will be displayed in a dialog box and must be confirmed by the user. The user may, of course, also delete any open print job. You might want to enable this option if you previously selected a browser print option excluding any user interaction. This option will prevent users from clicking the print button repeatedly (feedback).

Charge for print jobs
Use the SiteKiosk print feature to set up a charge for printing at your terminals. If you set up charges for your printer that vary from the default values, you must add the printer and enter a specific page charge.
This way, you will be able to make printing on a receipt printer free of charge (0.00 $) while, for instance, printing photos will be subject to a charge of 1.00 $ per printed copy.

Note:
Some print spoolers will indicate the file size in kb rather than the number of pages to be printed. Example: Try printing a page in Notepad to find out whether the print spooler displays the progress of the print process in kb or in page numbers. If the driver your printer uses displays the file size in kb, you will not be able to limit (see item 5) and charge for the pages contained in a print job.

Limit number of simultaneous print jobs to
Each click on the Print button will send at least one print job to the printer. For Web pages containing frames, a push on the button may send a print job per frame (depending on the previous selection). By limiting the number of simultaneous print jobs you ensure that the number of print jobs can never exceed the maximum number of print jobs shown in the print spooler.

Limit maximum number of pages per print job to
When printing large Web pages, the printer will print more than one page per print job. To prevent your users from printing extensive documents, you can limit the maximum number of pages per print job.

.PDF, WinWord, Star Office:
For third party applications, SiteKiosk will display the print dialog box used by the specific application. Your users will usually be able to set any number of pages (copies) per print job. However, since the values you specify possess a higher priority, SiteKiosk will not perform a print job containing too many pages and will inform the user accordingly.

Keep printer paused when quitting SiteKiosk
When quitting SiteKiosk the "Paused" printers are set back to the status "Ready". This might cause that unpaid jobs are printed. Activate this option to prevent the status change.