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Free Software Avoids Paper Wastage When Printing Web Pages
It's a problem that's all too familiar. You find a useful web page and you want to print it. So you hit the "Print" button in your web browser. But rather than getting a single printed page that contains just the text you want, you also get 15 other pages that you don't need, containing menus, comments, and other assorted junk. Which costs you real money in wasted paper and ink.
The solution to the problem is a wonderful Windows utility called iPrint. It installs as a standard printer driver. When you print to it, you see on-screen thumbnails of each page that is about to be printed. The software is clever enough to mark all the "wasted" pages for deletion automatically, but a few clicks allows you to change the selections if you want. Once you're happy that only the correct pages are selected, you can proceed with the actual printing.
It's a great idea, and it works well. Check out the video on the web site to see the product in action, or download it and get started straight away. It's totally free of charge, and the web site you need is http://www.clicktoconvert.com/iprint.
iPrint comes from inzone software, which also makes the excellent Click To Convert product. This isn't free, but is well worth checking out if you ever want to turn a Word document into a web site. In just a couple of clicks, even the most complex document becomes a collection of HTML pages, complete with navigation. It's a great way to avoid having to maintain both Word and web versions of documents, instruction manuals and so on.
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My problem is that when I print out this page from Firefox 3.6 I get one page of partial content followed by a blank page. Is there a way to print out this entire Gizmo "page" with or without comments but in either case without a lot of hassle and if so what is it, please. Thank you very much.
You might want to give Readability or PrintWhatYouLike a try.
The Firefox Add-on Aardvark is what I use - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4111
It more than makes up for Firefox's inability to print "As selected on screen" during Print Preview, like you can with IE.
Hi Guys,
Firstly, thanks Gizmo for the review of our iPrint :)
I understand and appreciate all of your comments regarding other tools and ways to achieve the same results readers... what I would say is that we created iPrint for users out there who weren't quite as technically competent as you... so that anyone could use it straight away without a learning curve.
The way iPrint differs from HP Web Page Printing (which is a cool tool BTW) is we work with any type of document, not just web pages.
Anyway, thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth - and of course, we plan to keep iPrint free and keep developing it, so if anyone has any feedback, good, bad or otherwise, we'd love to hear it.
Cheers,
Mike Stokes
what about ClipMarks ff addon?
Alternatively, use 'save page as pdf' bookmarklet from pdfdownload.org and then print the pdf, or just keep your soft copy?
The only flaw with this is that the website can take some time to convert a web page for you...
FREE and EASY!... No need for software and it's overhead on your machine...
In IE and Firefox, to eliminate extra pages from from printing, simply use the built-in "Print Preview" BEFORE printing. It can be found in the "File" menu as "Print Preview". With it, you can decide which page(s) actually print on paper.
Can't speak for the other browsers.
I would imagine they would also have the same built-in capability.
#1 For me FastStone.
I'd like to suggest Print Liminator - You print just waht you want - totally compatible with Firefox - PrintLiminator
I tried this but I don't like the idea that it dynamically loads script from the server. If somebody puts something malicious there a whole lot of people will be sad as soon as they press the bookmarklet. If it was self-contained on my machine it would be better.
Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) is a bookmarklet, easy to configure and use, not only for printing but also for reading on internet. Works fine with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, not with Internet Explorer.
Aardvark for Firefox is another tool to cut bits out of a web page so that it just the text you want. With print preview you can go back forth 'til is just a page if that's all you want.
Or, how about table tools for firefox? This will grab a the data from a html table on a web page (select tab delimited data) which you can then paste into a spreadsheet. I use that with online credit card statements to get usable data.
Nuke Anything Enhanced for Firefox.
Remove on-screen selected text, images, menus, headers, etc.
You can undo.
When you print, those objects are not printed.
The Firefox add-on PrintPreview is free, does the same and is excellent.
Since I use FireFox rather than IE, I checked this out - it's only for the older versions of FireFox ;-(
Is there another that would work with this browser?
Interesting concept. HP offers another alternative "HP Web Page Printing" http://www.hp.com/global/us/en/consumer/digital_photography/free/softwar... also free. It allows an individual to select what to print as opposed to deleting extra pages.
It appears that this only works with Internet Explorer.
Yes, that´s the only but a major con. http://www.printwhatyoulike.com can also crop the selected part but HP´s tool is the most intuitive and I would love to have in other browsers too. I´m wondering why all these print tools take exactly the opposite aproach. Instead of selecting the one part we want to print they make us delete ton of garbage.
bruno
It's like using a capture utility like the one recommended by Gizmo : PicPick. I personally use Faststone.
Fastone is good!
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