Add policy template to set print dialog default to system
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dkuij...@rallsr2.k12.mo.us,
Feb 13 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Steps to reproduce the problem: There's currently no option to alter the google print dialog to the system print dialog through Windows Group Policy administrative template. The only options are through altering the desktop shortcut by appending "--args --disable-print-preview", or through Google GSUITE Chrome Management user settings. The second option requires the user to be logged in to a Chrome profile using their GSUITE credentials. What is the expected behavior? 1. Set Google print preview to disabled per GPO. 2. Google print dialog/preview is not displayed for print preview. What went wrong? 1. User runs report which generates a pdf file. 2. User clicks 'print' icon. 3. Google Print preview appears. 4. User clicks 'print' button. 5. Printer rejects print job. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 56.0.2924.87 Channel: stable OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version:
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Feb 14 2017
Thanks for the report. Tagging as Feature request.
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Feb 15 2017
Assigning to cloud print PM for an update on this.
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Feb 15 2017
Marking it as Untriaged as it is a feature request
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Feb 16 2017
I believe the root problem seems to stem primarily from the Chrome browser print preview/dialog not adhering to default shared printer driver settings. In my case, most users are not allowed to print color to centralized copiers and the default driver settings are set to grayscale/b&w only. Any source documents with color are automatically be converted to allow printing. Conversely, print jobs of source documents with any color sent with Google Chrome using the chrome print preview get rejected at the copier as they are processed as a color print job. Disabling the google print dialog and using system dialog in Chrome does not exhibit this problem, thus the desire to disable the preview/dialog. As I've several hundreds of AD domain joined Windows machines with Chrome deployed, the preferred method would be through AD Google Chrome Group Policy Template, but the current collection does not offer a way to disable this feature. Google Cloud Chrome settings do have the option, and works as intended, but only for users signed into their Google Domain profile in the browser to pull the settings. The majority of users do not sign in. The only remaining way to disable the print preview, is through editing all local Chrome shortcuts. This requires too much manual intervention to be a sustainable alternative for my environment.
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Feb 16 2017
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Feb 16 2017
We're indeed considering adding a policy to enable administrators to set the system print dialogue as the default, but no definitive timelines for this as of now.
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Feb 28 2017
Assigning this to myself, I'll work on adding that policy soon.
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Feb 28 2017
So it looks like we already have a DisablePrintPreview policy that got deprecated (see 374321). Since the functionality is still there, as well as command line option (disable-print-preview), all that's needed here is to un-deprecate the existing policy. Am I missing something?
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Mar 14 2017
dkuijper: Can you tell us how the B&W color setting policy gets applied to printing with the system dialog? We can certainly put back the DisablePrintPreview policy, but it sounds like what we are really missing is a policy to control the color setting in print preview.
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Mar 21 2017
The following revision refers to this bug: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/cc65a6c44dc84e130f0d3f01e41d92afc93fb229 commit cc65a6c44dc84e130f0d3f01e41d92afc93fb229 Author: georgesak <georgesak@chromium.org> Date: Tue Mar 21 16:48:00 2017 Un-deprecated DisablePrintPreview policy. See crbug.com/374321 for history on why DisablePrintPreview was disabled. The functionality as well as the command line where never removed. This CL reinstates that policy, as it's a demand from enterprise users. BUG= 691671 , 374321 Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2724073002 Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#458438} [modify] https://crrev.com/cc65a6c44dc84e130f0d3f01e41d92afc93fb229/components/policy/resources/policy_templates.json
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Apr 11 2017
Marking this as fixed. |
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Comment 1 by ajha@chromium.org
, Feb 14 2017