Generate Your Own Printer Friendly Pages
Many leading websites and blogs feature an inbuilt printer friendly page to enable you to print only the content of the article and not others such as hyperlinks, ads and sometimes images. This printing feature is dependent on the host and what if you wanted such a feature on a website that isn’t offering one? We have a solution. Use PrintWhatYouLike.com.
The website enables users to convert any webpage on the web into a printer friendly page. It is similar to what you would probably do by copying the text and pasting it on MS Word, but just better and easier is the claim.
Users must enter the url which needs printer friendly fixing and the tool on the website displays the webpage in an editable form. Users can then choose what needs to be printed and omit the rest. A print command to your printer can be directly sent through this website.
The service is absolutely free but all prints are accompanied by a header and footer with the website name on it. I tried about a dozen urls and only around nine worked fine. The website stated that the destination url contained frames or invalid HTML although I wasn’t convinced about the reasons offered.
I find it much easier to copy and paste in a word document before hitting print. But, if you end up at a place where you don’t have access to any other word processing applications, maybe you could give this a try. It works with reasonable success.
About the author:
Abhinav has been blogging about printing and related technologies on CreativeCloud for several years. He is also a project manager for a large technology company.
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