printJob: start

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Submits the print job to the associated printer or printerShare. It will be printed after any existing pending jobs are completed, aborted, or canceled.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	PrintJob.Create	PrintJob.ReadWrite, PrintJob.ReadWrite.All, PrintJob.ReadWriteBasic, PrintJob.ReadWriteBasic.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /print/shares/{printerShareId}/jobs/{printJobId}/start

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a printJobStatus object in the body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/shares/{printerShareId}/jobs/{printJobId}/start

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Print.Shares["{printerShare-id}"].Jobs["{printJob-id}"].Start.PostAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc print shares jobs start post --printer-share-id {printerShare-id} --print-job-id {printJob-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



start, err := graphClient.Print().Shares().ByPrinterShareId("printerShare-id").Jobs().ByPrintJobId("printJob-id").Start().Post(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = graphClient.print().shares().byPrinterShareId("{printerShare-id}").jobs().byPrintJobId("{printJob-id}").start().post();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/print/shares/{printerShareId}/jobs/{printJobId}/start')
	.post();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->escapedPrint()->shares()->byPrinterShareId('printerShare-id')->jobs()->byPrintJobId('printJob-id')->start()->post()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Devices.CloudPrint

Start-MgPrintShareJob -PrinterShareId $printerShareId -PrintJobId $printJobId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.print.shares.by_printer_share_id('printerShare-id').jobs.by_print_job_id('printJob-id').start.post()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "state": "processing",
    "description": "The print job is currently being processed.",
    "isAcquiredByPrinter": false,
    "details": ["interpreting"]
}