Monday, November 29, 2010

TIP-Printing material from a website

I get this question a lot....  

"each time I try to print something from a website it comes out too small or I get more than I wanted"

Answer:

It sounds like you are simply pressing the PRINT icon from the toolbar menu within the browser and so what you will get is the entire page and frame.  Typically when you are on a website and you want to print, you should be looking for the button within the website that says 'printer friendly version' or 'print' and then it will produce a page that is set for printing. Once you have done that you can usually press the print button from the browser menu, or better still, the print button within the web page itself.

This is a very common problem that most people have and once you are aware to look for the 'print' button or 'printer friendly version' button that the website will provide you will start to look for it and know not to just press the print button. 

in fact if you were to use the google chrome web browser you will notice there is no PRINT button on the top toolbar, although some people already know you can always press the control print (ctrl-p) buttons on the keyboard and this will launch the printer menu, it will still produce the small print since it will simply print the entire web page.

Another way around this problem, if you have material on a website that you do want to print is to drag your mouse along the text/material you want printed so that it is highlighted. Then RIGHT CLICK anywhere within the material you have highlighted and choose the PRINT option, this will launch the print menu and you can choose highlighted material from the print option.. then when you print, you will only get the material you have printed.

Finally, another way would be to do the highlight trick but when you RIGHT CLICK on the material, from the menu, choose COPY (or ctrl-c) and simply copy this material, open up word (for example) and PASTE (ctrl-v) and this will copy that material to a blank word document which you can then print normally.