How to change print settings for Internet Explorer and the WebBrowser control programmatically in Internet Explorer
This article was previously published under Q236777 SUMMARY This article explains how to set page margins, header and
footer information, and the default printer for printing from Internet Explorer
and the WebBrowser control programmatically. MORE INFORMATION Users can easily change page margins, header and footer
settings, and the default Internet Explorer printer through the Internet
Explorer user interface. However, there are no methods under Internet Explorer
or the WebBrowser control to change these settings programmatically. You cannot use the ExecWB command to set page margins and the header or footer. These values are stored in the registry. There might be a need to change the print settings of Internet Explorer or the WebBrowser control programmatically. The only settings that can be changed are page margins, and header and footer information. There is no supported way to change other settings like page orientation or printer. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows This is how Microsoft Internet Explorer accesses the printing settings: For Page Margins, Microsoft Internet Explorer first tries to get the values from this registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PageSetup If there is no such a key, Internet Explorer create
this key by copying the values from the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PageSetup If there is no such key, default values are
provided. For the Header and Footer, the values are picked up from the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PageSetup If there is no such key, default values are
provided.The defaults are 0.75 for margins, For the Internet Explorer default printer, default values are provided from: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PageSetup\printer The developer could alter the above registry entries
for the printing settings accordingly.Please note that these values are system-wide and affect all instances of the WebBrowser control and Internet Explorer for the current user. REFERENCES For a Microsoft Visual Basic .NET version of this
article, see
311280 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311280/EN-US/). For additional information, click the
article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 145679 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145679/EN-US/) How To Use the Registry API to Save and Retrieve Setting
156732 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156732/EN-US/) How To Print from the Microsoft WebBrowser Control
176400 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176400/EN-US/) How To Print the WebBrowser Control
188271 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188271/EN-US/) How To Print Contents of the Web Browser Control From VB
256898 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256898/EN-US/) Default Printer for Internet Explorer or Outlook Express May Be Incorrect
For additional information, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:Web development http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_webdev.asp (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_webdev.asp) APPLIES TO
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