@bcyesil/capacitor-plugin-printer

Capacitor Printer Plugin

@bcyesil/capacitor-plugin-printer

Capacitor plugin for printing HTML, plain text, and images in iOS/Android apps. Supports additional features like Base64 PDF and image printing (from v0.0.5).

Printer.print({ content: '<b>Lorem ipsum...</b>'})

Versions

Capacitor Version	Plugin Version
v5.x	v0.0.3
v6.x	v0.0.4+

Supported Platforms

• Android 5.1+
• iOS 13+

Supported Contents

• HTML (can use CSS inline styling)
• Text
• Image(as HTML)
• Base64(PDF & image) (since v0.0.5)

Installation

npm install @bcyesil/capacitor-plugin-printer
npx cap sync

Usage

import { Printer } from '@bcyesil/capacitor-plugin-printer';

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Printer.print({ content: 'Lorem ipsum...', name: 'lorem-filename', orientation: 'landscape' })

Examples

Text:

 Printer.print({ content: 'Lorem ipsum...'})

HTML:

 Printer.print({ content: '<h1>Lorem</h1>'})

Printing multiple HTML elements:

    let contentTest: string = "";

    contentTest += '<li style="color:green">Tea</li>'
    contentTest += '<li style="font-size:50px">Coffee</li>'
    contentTest += '<img src="https://picsum.photos/200">'

    Printer.print({ content: contentTest })

Images with HTML:

 Printer.print({ content: '<img src="base64/url/path">'})

with inline CSS:

 Printer.print({ content: '<b style="color:red">Lorem ipsum</b>'})

Base64:

// (since v0.0.5)
// Base64 decoder supports Plain text(just the Base64 value) & Data URI(data:content/type;base64)

 Printer.print({ content: 'base64:...'})

API

• print(...)
• Interfaces

print(...)

print(printOptions: PrintOptions) => Promise<void>

Param	Type
printOptions	PrintOptions

Interfaces

PrintOptions

Prop	Type	Description	Default	Since
content	string	HTML content for print.		0.0.1
name	string	Name of the print of the document.	iOS=YourAppName/Android=Document+CurrentTimestamp	0.0.1
orientation	string	Orientation of the printing page. "portrait" or "landscape"	"portrait"	0.0.1