Every now and then we look back at services that we have reviewed before. Print What You Like was reviewed by us in 2008. It is an online service that allows a user to optimize printing jobs before they are send to the printer. It is limited to optimizing printouts of websites and offers controls to remove elements from those websites. The advantage of this is that the user can reduce the website so that only the content that needs to be printed is send to the printer and that everything else is not which saves printer ink and paper.
The service works by pointing it to an url on the Internet. The website will be loaded by Print What You Like with controls to manage elements on the website in a left sidebar.
The mouse cursor will automatically highlight elements on the website. These elements can then be manipulated in the sidebar. It is for instance possible to remove elements from the website, change the text font and size, fit elements to the width of the page or resize elements.
Print What You Like offers an automatic option as well which works well on some websites but not on all. This option in theory removes all unnecessary elements from the website.
The service is also offering a bookmarklet that sends urls directly to it making the process more user friendly. Alternatives to Print What You like are The Printliminator bookmarklet, Print Friendly or Green Print.
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