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Printer-Friendly Pages - Automating

Learn how to create printer-friendly pages, both with CSS and with scripts and other automation tools. Printer-friendly pages allow your readers access to your Web site content even when they are not online. Learn what it takes to make great printer-friendly pages.
What is a Printer-Friendly Web Page?
As Web pages get fancier and fancier, the ability to print out simple versions becomes more necessary. What makes a printer-friendly page printer-friendly
How do I print with CSS and have the page breaks in the right places?
An FAQ about printing Web pages and getting the print outs to break (or not break) in the correct places.
CSS Media Types Create Print-Friendly Pages
Learn how easy it is to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) media types to define a printer-friendly page without actually building one.
Easy Print Button
Allow your users the ability to quickly and easily print your web page. This script adds a button or link of your choice to the page. When the user clicks it, the script calls the browsers built-in print function to print the page.

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