What Would An Ideal Print-Friendly Web Page Look Like?
The ideal print-friendly web page will not have large colored images, nor huge fonts that use up large amounts of printer ink or paper. It does not need to include navigation bars or advertisements. All that is required is the text in some viewer-friendly serif font such as Times Roman and printed on a white background. How To Create Print-Friendly Web Pages There are three methods available to have available print-friendly versions of web pages. 1. Two copies of each web page, one for the screen and one for the printer. 2. A corresponding Adobe PDF file for each web page 3. One web page with two style sheets, one for the screen and one for the printer. The first method is very inefficient. The second is equally inefficient and brings in the usability problems that some people experience with PDF files. The third is surprisingly easy and very effective. An excellent source here is CSS Design: Going to Print by Eric Meyer of AListApart. A good example of this in application is the SMM w
