# Print button
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-button/17653
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 8, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-button/17653 "2003-04-08T00:02:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ainriail](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ainriail)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-button/17653/1 "2003-04-08T00:02:01Z")
Hi, I want to make a button in flash mx so that I can print just a picture. I tried using the print function and as far as I can see I can’t specify a path. I also tried trough getURL and printing from there but is there an easier way so that I could just click on the print button from flash and have it print out a picture from my folder without going through another program? Thanks for any help.
Marc:hair:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-button/17653/2 "2003-04-08T08:50:55Z")
Not from your folder, what you want to print has to be in the fla/swf.
In your \_root timeline, put !#p to disallow printing for the entire main timeline in 1st frame label. stop() action on this frame.
2nd frame, put a grapic the size you want your printout to be, label this frame #b , stands for bounding box, size of this will dictate size of printout…
Put your picture into an independent, invisible clip.
Then, select the keyframe, in the label (property inspector), put #p the allow printing. Name this clip instance (image\_mc)…
Put a button in \_root, action:
on(release){
if($version!=""){ //checks if the player version has the print feature
print(“image\_mc”, “bframe”); //2 other possibilities: bmovie & bmax, read the help on printing…
}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-button/17653/3 "2003-04-08T19:00:19Z")
Thank you very much! I will try this out. You have saved me a lot of time.=)
Marc:hair: