How to print a map.

Question

I've been tasked with adding print functionality to our website.  Specifically, we need to have a toolbar button that can be used to print the map - just the map - none of the other stuff on the page.  I'm kinda new to web programming and arcGis and Javascript, so I'm not sure what to do.  I found the following sample code, but I don't know if it's still valid (sometimes stuff goes stale).

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jssamples/widget_print.html

In addition, I'm not sure how to alter the code to point to our maps instead of the 'sample' map in the code.  Any assistance would be appreciated.

DaveSouthern · Answer

Thanks so much for your response, Chris.  I should have posted something sooner saying that my dev lead and I chose to go with a simple css media=print solution to this for now.  However, I'll keep this code for the future in case I need it.

ChrisSergent · Answer

Here is an example that still has the scalebar and date and map, but nothing else (also you can see a live example at Print a Map Just a click on the hammer icon and then the print icon and it will bring up a live print example): Print a Map

City of Decatur Print Service

Note: Select the format that you would like to print your map from the dropdown below.

This print service is to be used for City business only.

DaveSouthern · Answer

Hmmm... I just tried 'View Live Sample' on the code page, and the page that is supposed to be running the sample is having problems on my system.  It looks fine, but when you click the 'Print" button, nothing is sent to the printer - no printer dialog pops up or anything.  Sometimes the 'print' button changes to a 'Printout' hyperlink, which navigates to another page with an image of the map.  Is that how it's supposed to print?