API: Check Enabled Printers

Check which printer is enabled in Kiosk Pro's settings. This API is useful if your kiosk deployment uses multiple types of printers and you want to be able to print to any of them without creating duplicate pieces of content.

Requirements

Kiosk Pro Enterprise

Integration of our JavaScript API into your webpage

Sample code to run within the app and download for integration into your own project is available here.
Best practices for working with the JavaScript API are available here.

App Settings

Content > JavaScript API > Access JavaScript API > By Import
Printing > only one printer toggle enabled

Triggers via API Functions

Check Enabled Printer

Check Enabled Printer

This function checks to see which printer is enabled in the app settings. Note: this function will only return one printer type. This cannot be used if more than one printer is enabled.

Format	kp_CommonPrintingAPI_requestEnabledPrinterType(callback);
Parameters	callback - [string] the name of the callback to be triggered after the function has been executed
Callback format	callback(type);
Callback return values	type - [array] contains the following values: printerType - [integer] represents the printer type that is enabled. Possible values are: 0 - no printers are enabled in Kiosk Pro settings 1 - Airprint Printer 2 - Star Micronics Printer 3 - Bixolon Printer 4 - Brother Printer printerTypeDescription - [string] the name of the printer type that is enabled

Sample Code

This sample code relies on the JavaScript APIs built into Kiosk Pro and will not run successfully in other browsers or within our in-app help interface.
To run sample code, set the app's homepage to https://kioskgroup.com/printer-type-api
To download a .zip of sample code, click here.

Change Log

Added in version 10.0.