Completely disable printing in Google Chrome

How can I disable printing in Google Chrome? My searches gave back results for disabling print preview, which does not do what I want - complete and utter disabling of Chrome's ability to open any kind of print dialogue, or print anything on a local or cloud printer. EDIT: My problem is this. There are no printers available at the moment, so I want to prevent Chrome from triggering its or system print dialogue. I could remove virtual printers (PDF Architect, Microsoft XPS, etc), but I'd lose printing functionality in programs which rely on them.

FiddlingAway asked Dec 25, 2017 at 13:42 FiddlingAway FiddlingAway 232 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges This sounds like an XY problem. What are you trying to achieve by disabling printing? Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 13:45

@DavidPostill I don't want those using browsers to be able to print anything. There are no printers available, and I don't want the print option to be available as well, or any browser or system dialogues to be triggered. If that's even possible, that is.

Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 13:47 You could try disabling the print spooler service Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 13:50

Yeah, I've thought about it, but it brings into play a few problems - printing is occasionally needed in some other applications, so that's a no go. In a nutshell, everything else may print, Chrome may not.

Commented Dec 25, 2017 at 13:52

Not a XY problem. Some people just want to have only the menu options they use. I would also like to remove Save As, Send To, and Cast, because those are options that I never use.

Commented Nov 3, 2019 at 16:55

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I want to disable Chrome's ability to open any kind of print dialogue, or print anything.

You can enable or disable printing. When printing is disabled, a user won’t be able to print from the Chrome menu, extensions, JavaScript applications, etc.

Set Chrome policies for users

Google Chrome user policies are not available for devices enrolled with a single-app kiosk license.

As a Chrome administrator for your organization, you can set policies for how people use their Google Account on a Chrome device, an Android device, or the Chrome browser. These policies are cloud-managed, so they apply when signing in from a personal or public device. The policies don't apply to users signed in as guests or with a Google Account outside of your organization (such as a personal Gmail account).

You can also set device-level policies on corporate-managed Windows®, Mac®, and Linux® computers.

Android apps can run on Chrome OS on supported device models only. We are constantly adding support for new devices. To allow your users to run Android apps, you must enable Android apps on supported Chrome devices in your organization.

Printing

You can enable or disable printing. When printing is disabled, a user won’t be able to print from the Chrome menu, extensions, JavaScript applications, etc.

This policy has no effect on Android apps running on Chrome OS.