Roman just posted an interesting observation about pdf printers on the Ghacks forum. He noticed that the output file size of pdf printers differed considerably. In his own test, he noticed a difference of nearly 400% between the smallest file size and largest file size. While that’s just been a single test, it shows that [...]

Categories: Software

When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and in the early days of dot matrix and bubblejet printers (before ink prices soared) people would print anything and everything at length. Now [...]

Categories: Hardware

Flipbook Printer was one of my first Donation Coder software reviews here on Ghacks. Mouser has released an update to the program which is now called FlipSuite. It is still available as a free version; A version for commercial use has been developed as well which offers the same feature set but can be used [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It pays off, financially, to remove elements from a page or sheet before sending it to the printer. Elements that are removed reduce the amount of printer ink and paper used in the print outs. The Firefox add-on Print Edit integrates seamlessly into the print preview page of the web browser, by adding an Edit [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Screen capture programs can be divided into two categories: Those that concentrate on the screen capturing part and those that add functionality like image editing to the process. Screenpresso belongs to the second category as it offers basic image editing and annotation features for screenshots that have been taken with it. The portable software program [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

Printing out articles or other information on a website has usually the effect that a lot of elements are included in the print out that are not necessarily needed. This waste of printer ink can be reduced by removing the unnecessary elements from the page layout before printing the relevant information. The Printliminator bookmarklet offers [...]

Categories: The Web

The Windows print screen key will copy the complete screen to the Windows clipboard whenever it is pressed by the user. Many users install programs that give them more control over the screenshot taking process. Hardcopy is such a program. It is a lightweight application that adds several new features that make it easier to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I felt weird all day today so I spent an hour stumbling around the web, which yielded some quite cool results. One of them is Print What You Like, a truly awesome service designed to help you print only what you need, and to save the environment, nice combination! If you want to print a [...]

Categories: Online Services