[Web4lib] Printing Web Pages

[Louise Alcorn]

Very easy solution:  Have them print in landscape.  We train our users
to do a Print Preview first.  From Preview you can go to Page Setup and
quickly change it to landscape format.  Keep in mind the next person who
sits down may have to change it back...

It's a web design issue, and it drives me crazy that designers don't
think of how their pages will print.

Someone else mentioned the 'printable view' option--we're also working
to train our patrons to look for anything like this, especially with
emails and online articles (NY Times, etc.).  

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Louise E. Alcorn
Reference Technology Librarian
West Des Moines Public Library
4000 Mills Civic Pkwy
West Des Moines IA 50265
(515) 222-3573      louise.alcorn at wdm-ia.com
http://www.wdmlibrary.org 

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Charles Gambrell
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:50 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Printing Web Pages

We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to print as our
customers want.  The right side of the web page is not printed.

Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this problem?

Thanks for any help you can give.