Have you ever found an article that’s very useful and wanted to print a copy of it in case the website is no longer accessible or the page has been removed? Printing a webpage is easy by going to File and select Print in your web browser. However, normally a website contains advertisements, images and fancy designs to attract visitors but it’s not good for printing since you have to waste extra ink and paper to print unnecessary things that you don’t need. If you can save ink and paper, it also helps to save your money and the environment as well.
One method is to copy all the text and paste it to a text editor without any formatting to print. Doing this works but sometimes the formatting of the paragraph is all messed up and it is not the original like what you see on the website. I found a very cool website which offers free service to make a print friendly version of any webpage, as well as allowing you to save it in PDF format. You don’t even need to install any software or plugin for this.
PrintFriendly makes printing on the web better. You’ll save paper and ink, plus get great looking documents. Its special algorithm removes advertisements, navigation, and all the junk you don’t want to print. PrintFriendly use best practices in print Typography to format your document for great readability. You can even customize the page that you want to print by removing paragraphs that you don’t need.
First go to PrintFriendly’s website, enter the URL that you want to make it print friendly and click the Print Preview button. Within a few seconds, the print friendly page will be generated. There is a checkbox to remove images. If you see any paragraph that you don’t need, simply click on the paragraph will delete from the preview. You can also undo any changes by clicking the Undo button.
Once you’re done, you can either click the Print button to open the Print window or click the PDF button to generate a PDF file. If you own a website, you can also add a button to allow your visitors easily print the webpage they are in via PrintFriendly.
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mau bertanya mas,bagaimana ya cara pengaturan pdf agar pada halaman pdf tidak tertampil tombol save dan tombol print…mohon bantuannya ya :)
Thanks Raymond and Pekkal for Sharing this Treasured article.
How about a article page with many pages. Many website I visit only support print in one page. Example EOS 500D review has 13 pages (it just example). The site give the print command but only for a page. In the example cases I get 13 pages. Not one single pages like normal. Not work :((. printwhatyoulike.com/print?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpcstats.com%2Farticleview.cfm%3FarticleID%3D2406.
They should have a small database to convert the build in print page if the page has one. And combine many page if the pages doesn’t have one.
wah…wat a good post for student like me who need to get a lot of articles from website and make it printable in a proper format
Thanks Ray…!!!
thanks ray for ur information…i haven’t yet tried it yet but maybe it’s better than other pdf softwares…
Hi this is Taylor from PrintFriendly.com. Thanks for the post!
@winnish, we are constantly improving the algorithm. Currently some sites break in the server side version due to lack of content (ie homepages like google.com, or really bad code). Try using the bookmarklet, it’s client side so requires no parsing.
@Raymond, have you thought about using the button? It’s free and only takes a minute to add. PrintFriendly.com/button
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Another good alternative would be bullzip pdf printer, really nice software and its free too!
This is cool
Thanks Pekkal for sharing. That’s a nice website to optimize a webpage for printing.
PrintWhatYouLike is more configurable
printwhatyoulike.com/
“Save Money. Save the Environment.
Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don’t want?
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Thank for the info Ray, but can you or any one help me to find free software for pdf creator as good as PdfFactoryPro?
Thank for sharing.
It could be very helpful, but unfortunately it doesn’t work!
I tried several urls but after I click “print preview” I always get – “We’re sorry, but something went wrong.
We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly”
thank you, very useful, I used cute pdf, but that is better. thank you again.
thanks for sharing…. will come to use soon enough! :)
Now that’s a very useful information.
Will be using it quiet often…..
A big thanx Ray
Ray please help me out i have installed systemshield antivirus on my laptop it now diplays a blue screen with red leteers on top of warning.my laptop does not open in windows.it does not allow anything to be loaded.it appears to be locked by antivirus.how do i get it back running.it keeps saying the systemshield is infected when i click continue it wants me to register yet it does not allow nothing to be loaded.
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thanks Ray bye, for now keep well.