Print the System Clipboard in physical printer

[martin]

Is there an easy way to make a macro to print the content in the system clipboard in a physical printer?

If the System Clipboard contains text (wether formatted or not formatted), print the text.
If the System Clipboard contains a picture/screenshot, print the picture.

[appleianer]

@martin

If the System Clipboard contains text (wether formatted or not formatted), print the text.

Hi @martin, please have a look at this post for the text:

How to Print the Selected Text?

Here it works fine with Safari. Apparently Firefox doesn’t put any RTF to the clipboard, so the message “No RTF in clipboard” was correct. Here is a very slightly modified version of @JimmyHartington’s script: [image] Print Selection as RTF or Plain Text.kmmacros (2.4 KB) If it doesn’t find RTF it will print Plain Text instead. This won’t be very useful for Firefox, but maybe for other apps that don’t output RTF. For example, this way you can also print a Finder selection as a list of file…

[martin]

Thanks, @appleianer. It works with text, but does not work with pictures/screenshots. I don't know how to make change to it, as I have very little script knowledge.

Edit:
I have successfully twisted the AppleScript to make it work with pictures/screenshots in the System Clipboard as well.

It pastes whatever is in the System Clipboard to the newly created document.

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	make new document at the front
	tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down
	print front document without print dialog
	delay 1 --added a delay to watch the process
	close front document without saving
end tell

[appleianer]

I am glad @martin that you have found a solution. If you still want to make changes to the image to be printed, try this macro. In case you want to print an image in black and white and not in color the other way round:

19)Clipboard Image <A076 200826T013050>.kmmacros (22,4 KB)

[martin]

Hello @appleianer,
Thanks. It's a good option to have when work with pictures in the System Clipboard.

The AppleScript I used above pastes whatever is in the System Clipboard. It could be either a text or a picture. Your macro works with pictures, but not with text.

What is the benefit of using it? You said of printing in black and white and not in color. I don't understand it. I don't have a color printer, so it has to be black and white printing.

If your macro does have extra benefits, I think we then need first to check if the System Clipboard contains a picture or just a text. I don't know how to do it either.