Print Friendly Removes Uneccessary Elements Before Printing

We have covered services and applications before that allow a user to remove elements from websites before adding them as a new print job to their printer queue. Some examples are Print What You Like, HP Smart Web Printing or Best Way to Print Websites which covers two extensions for the Firefox web browser.

Print Friendly is a web based service that is available on their main website, as a bookmarklet and for website owners as a script to put on their websites directly. Print Friendly will basically remove certain elements like advertisement by default from the website. By doing this it reduces the printer ink needed to print the website. More important than that is probably the option to remove additional elements before sending the rest of the document to the printer.

This makes it possible to remove additional unwanted elements such as tags or images from the document before printing it. Print Friendly offers an option to automatically remove all images from the document to make things easier if a document contains many of them. It also features an undo function in case the user wants to go back to a previous state.

The optimized document can then be printed or turned into a pdf at the Print Friendly website. The bookmarklet makes it easier to use the service while surfing the Internet as it will automatically load the active website in the Print Friendly website.

Print Friendly might come handy in situations where other tools or extensions that can remove elements from websites before printing are not available.

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4 Responses to “Print Friendly Removes Uneccessary Elements Before Printing”

1. Taylor Norrish says:

   May 20, 2009 at 5:54 am

   This is Taylor from PrintFriendly. Thanks for the post :)

   Our goal was to bring a little style and ease of use to online printing.

   Your content looks great with PrintFriendly. Have you thought about adding the button?

   Demo: http://www.printfriendly.com/demo?url=http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/19/print-friendly-removes-uneccessary-elements-before-printing/

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   May 21, 2009 at 4:02 pm

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3. Print Friendly: Impresiones limpias | ixenia says:

   June 1, 2009 at 7:33 pm

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