Create printJob for a printerShare

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new printJob for a printerShare.

Also creates a new printDocument associated with the printJob.

Note: A user can submit up to ~10000 print jobs in 12 days.

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.ReadWriteBasic PrintJob.ReadWrite, PrintJob.ReadWrite.All, PrintJob.ReadWriteBasic.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Not supported. Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /print/shares/{printerShareId}/jobs

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of a printJob object. The printJob object should only contain configuration property. All properties of configuration are nullable. All other fields, including job and document IDs, are set automatically during resource creation and should not be provided in request.

Right now, Universal Print supports only one printDocument per printJob object.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a printJob object and associated printDocument in the response body.

Examples

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/shares/{printerShareId}/jobs
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "configuration": {
    "feedOrientation": "longEdgeFirst",
    "pageRanges": [
      {
        "start": 1,
        "end": 1
      }
    ],
    "quality": "medium",
    "dpi": 600,
    "orientation": "landscape",
    "copies": 1,
    "duplexMode": "oneSided",
    "colorMode": "blackAndWhite",
    "inputBin": "by-pass-tray",
    "outputBin": "output-tray",
    "mediaSize": "A4",
    "margin": {
      "top": 0,
      "bottom": 0,
      "left": 0,
      "right": 0
    },
    "mediaType": "stationery",
    "finishings": null,
    "pagesPerSheet": 1,
    "multipageLayout": "clockwiseFromBottomLeft",
    "collate": false,
    "scaling": "shrinkToFit",
    "fitPdfToPage": false
  }
}

Response

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

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#print/printJobs/$entity",
  "id": "1825",
  "createdDateTime": "2020-10-14T05:16:49-07:00",
  "isFetchable": false,
  "redirectedFrom": null,
  "redirectedTo": null,
  "createdBy": {
    "id": "{userId}",
    "displayName": "{username}",
    "ipAddress": null,
    "userPrincipalName": "{userupn}"
  },
  "status": {
    "state": "paused",
    "description": "The job is not a candidate for processing yet.",
    "isAcquiredByPrinter": false,
    "details": [
      "uploadPending"
    ]
  },
  "configuration": {
    "quality": "medium",
    "dpi": 600,
    "feedOrientation": "longEdgeFirst",
    "orientation": "landscape",
    "duplexMode": "oneSided",
    "copies": 1,
    "colorMode": "blackAndWhite",
    "inputBin": "by-pass-tray",
    "outputBin": "output-tray",
    "mediaSize": "A4",
    "mediaType": "stationery",
    "finishings": null,
    "pagesPerSheet": 1,
    "multipageLayout": "clockwiseFromBottomLeft",
    "collate": false,
    "scaling": "shrinkToFit",
    "fitPdfToPage": false,
    "pageRanges": [
      {
        "start": 1,
        "end": 1
      }
    ],
    "margin": {
      "top": 0,
      "bottom": 0,
      "left": 0,
      "right": 0
    }
  },
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "1477576d-5dab-4ea9-865c-c0b82cd70bd5",
      "displayName": "",
      "contentType": "",
      "size": 0
    }
  ]
}