Safari prints blank pages: beforeprint re-fires on every print-dialog change; named @page ignored; printer margins used

Fix

Do no DOM/state changes in beforeprint; send a fire-and-forget request instead (navigator.sendBeacon/fetch(..., {keepalive:true})).
Size print blocks for printer margins (e.g. 248 mm portrait / 168 mm landscape content height on A4) and make images fill the real box with container units:

@media print {
  .sheet { height: 248mm; container-type: size; padding: 0; }
  .sheet img { width: 100cqw; height: 100cqh; object-fit: contain; }
}

Don't swap print CSS after an async request and then call window.print(); open a dedicated print route in a new tab.

Symptom

A print page (delivery note with an attached drawing page) printed correctly in Chrome, but in Safari on macOS: changing printer or page range in the print dialog produced blank pages; a page meant to fit A4 overflowed into a near-blank extra page showing only a frame edge.

Cause

Safari fires beforeprint again on every change in the print dialog. The page's beforeprint handler updated React state (marking the document as saved), which re-rendered the DOM mid-print → blank output.
Safari ignores named pages (@page landscape { ... } with page: landscape) and uses the printer's margins, so element heights that assumed zero margins (e.g. 265–275 mm on A4) overflowed.

Verify

A WKWebView harness (Swift: load URL, printOperation(with:), run to PDF with chosen margins/page range, optional CSS injection) reproduced the issue: old CSS = 3 pages at 18/36/54 pt margins, new CSS = 2 pages at 18–72 pt. Real Safari printing was fixed afterwards.

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Safari prints blank pages: beforeprint re-fires on every print-dialog change; named @page ignored; printer margins used

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