Chapter 6: How to Create Printer-friendly Pages with CSS
by Craig Buckler
In this article, we review the art of creating printer-friendly web pages with CSS.
“Who prints web pages?” I hear you cry! Relatively few pages will ever be reproduced on paper. But consider:
- printing travel or concert tickets
- reproducing route directions or timetables
- saving a PDF for offline reading
- accessing information in an area with poor connectivity
- using data in dangerous or dirty conditions — for example, a kitchen or factory
- outputting draft content for pen annotations
- printing web receipts for bookkeeping purposes
- providing documents to those with disabilities who find it difficult to use a screen
- printing a page for your colleague who refuses to use this ...
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