Restrict printing a report on physical paper

HI All
I am generating online report from my Forms 10g application in the web browser in PDF format.
Now I want to restrict the user to take print of that report on physical paper based some application restrictions.
How do I achieve this?
Thanking You

Hi Oais,
I have a payroll report that should be printed on a sheet that is very large in width..even bigger than A3.
The client says thay are going to print it on paper rolls or something.If the client wants to print on whatever we developers do not have a problem.
We just need to adjust the width and height as required and then develop the report as required.
To set the width or height from Object Navigator, Under Layout Model you can find Header Section, Main Section and Trailer Section, just set the width and height as required.
Hope this helps.
Best Regards
Arif Khadas

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