[Web4lib] Printing Web Pages

[Elena OMalley]

I'm not sure whether you mean your own pages or customers 
using your computers (or asking for your expertise) to print
other sites' pages.

If it's your equipment but external sites...we disabled 
the print command in the dropdown menu in the browser and made 
the print preview both prominent (on the browser toolbar) and 
the only way to get to the print button on our public research 
machines. Control+p still works, but not everyone knows keyboard 
shortcuts. 

The user at least theoretically sees what it's going to look like
and has a chance to make adjustments before sending the print job. 
(Change margins, switch to landscape, or whatever.)

Some folks get frustrated because the print command isn't where
they expect. And some don't look at the print preview window or
don't think it's accurately showing what will print. As with 
anything, this method has its good and bad points.
 
Elena O'Malley
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Head of Library Computer and Internet Services
Emerson College Library, Boston, MA 02116

> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:50:05 -0500
> From: Charles Gambrell <gambrellcb at gmail.com>
> 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.