Skip to content

Disabling print preview

← Printing etc

In a busy rental environment each click becomes crucial.

One thing that can get in the way is your browser's print dialog.  E.g. you press print and then it shows you something this:


To disable this on Chrome on a mac you can do the following.

Open up Terminal and override the setting at the command line:

defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -boolean true
This is what will popup instead, which is quicker:



N.B. this will disable preview for all printing on Chrome on that computer (until you turn it off, like this)

defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -bool false




Windows page setup in Chrome

Please follow these steps.

Disable print preview in the following way

  1. Create a Chrome desktop shortcut .
  2. Right-click it and select Properties.
  3. Click the Shortcut tab and in the tab field, to the end of C:\Users\Octo\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe append --disable-print-preview and click OK.


Feedback and Knowledge Base

(thinking…)