ok i managed to find this: viewtopic.php?t=7391
so now i know how to print a page...
but you see so often, 'printer friendly' pages
what is this? is it a set format/command? or is it just stuffing everything in a table with max width?
Printer friendly? (easy question)
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Printer friendly files just tend to mean they only include text and black and white, so that all printers can print them easily.
The "best practices" way to generate these nowadays is to include a media="print" stylesheet than can hide navigation bars and parts of the header and footer; as well as resetting fonts and margins for print instead of screen. http://www.alistapart.com has a very good article on this. When you use this method you don't have to maintain two seperate versions of the page as used to be done.