Disable Printing in Internet Explorer

Question

Is there a way to disable printing in Internet Explorer without writing a shell around the browser API? A GPO would be the best method, but I'm certainly open for anything.

Answer 1

This is a difficult one, but in order to block printing, at least the content but not the paper, on a previous project of mine, I used the following:

<style type="text/css" media="print">
    body {
        display:none;
    }
</style>

When they print the page, it is blank.

Answer 2

What are you trying to prevent by disabling printing? If you're trying to stop them from printing stuff and taking it home, there's a couple different ways around that, without printing. Including

1. Copy and paste to Word
2. Screen Shots
3. File -> Save As
4. Look through the cache files and grab it from there.

Answer 3

There are registry settings to do so. For example.