Can no longer print a confluence page from the browser

Peter Priestley February 27, 2024

Using the browser Print function in Chrome, a Confluence page will print all blank (apart from the page header and footer).   If the print option 'background graphics' is checked, the page content prints but with a grey screen covering the whole page.

I'm aware you can export to pdf and print, but that uses a font that might be readable on the screen, but is too small when printed.

The browser Print did work until recently.

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Ollie Guan
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February 27, 2024

Hi @Peter Priestley ,

I'm not sure what the browser printing issue you mention is, but you should be able to adjust the font size in the PDF and try printing it.

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February 27, 2024

Hi @Peter Priestley ,

You can try the following steps:

  1. Delete your Chrome browser's cache.
  2. Reset Chrome browser settings to default.

If these solutions do not work, Uninstall and reinstalling Chrome can help resolve printing issues caused by corrupted installation files.

Regards,
Bhushan

Peter Priestley February 28, 2024

Thanks.

I can reproduce the problem on multiple computers - in fact I can't find any that work.  The problem also happens with Microsoft Edge browser.

Brendon Smith
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April 3, 2024

I have the exact same problem and really need to get this sorted. Any progress o nyour end Peter?

Peter Priestley April 7, 2024

No change here Brendon.  - I still have the issue.  I think it needs to be escalated somehow - I doubt if Atlassian actually listens to this community.

dtlhlbs
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April 16, 2024

Same here, found these:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-77966

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-77555

If I select Background graphics I can see the content behind a gray box, but it's unusable due to the gray box.

 Switching to landscape resolves the issue, but it's a poor workaround.

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Peter Priestley April 16, 2024

Thanks.  The information about printing in landscape or collapsing the sidebar is very helpful and works for me.

Still not as good as it used to be:- the top title with the path to the document and the pencil icon, etc, etc overlays on every page and covers the document content after page 1.

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Theo Swartz
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October 16, 2024

This bug is still present as of today (Oct 16, 2024). 

Thank you very much dtlhlbs, for the workaround method.

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November 17, 2024

I have the same issue with pages with tables. My work-around was to go to click more actions button (...) then select Advanced details, then View Source. That created the page without the annoying headers (unfortunately removes the page title too though). Then print / save to pdf choosing landscape.

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