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Feature: Allow silent printing #3259
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
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Describe the solution you'd like
First of all, thank you very much for this project. :)
As a devleoper, I would like to have the option to print a page "silently", meaning without showing the print dialog.
This is usually used in kiosk environments, e.g. for printing photos.
Electron already does this with the webContents.print function.
Wails only has the WindowPrint function which calls window.print (see frontend.go.
Describe alternatives you've considered
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leaanthony commentedon Feb 15, 2024
Great suggestion 👍 Do you know how electron implemented it? My guess is "outside the browser"...
cstenglein commentedon Feb 15, 2024
Since you are using WebView2 for the windows part, you could print silently there:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/how-to/print?tabs=win32cpp#the-print-method-to-customize-printing
See the
Printstatement:The closest I can find is the
Printmethod in electron_api_web_contents.cc, which collects the options and forwards the job to aprint_task_runner_.Relent97 commentedon Jul 10, 2025
Hi guys, please is there a PR where this was eventually resolved? Would be great to see the config thank you so much!
leaanthony commentedon Jul 12, 2025
No but if you find out how to do it, that would be great.
leaanthony commentedon Feb 1, 2026
This feature request has been added to our v3 Backlog. As v3 is now our primary focus, all feature development is being directed there.
You can track progress on the v3 Backlog project board: v3 Backlog
Thanks for your patience!
LianSchedule commentedon Aug 30, 2026
Dear Developer, could you also add the API printToPDF while developing this feature? Thank you very much.
taliesin-ai commentedon Oct 15, 2026
Hi there! Thanks for the suggestion. I'll leave this open for us to consider when planning future work.