The concept of the RiTi printer goes further than that. It does not require a power source for the actual printing process which is also something that traditional printers require. The printout is created by moving the ink case left and right manually. This obviously means that this method is not suited for printing out many papers at once.

Users who work regularly with printers might not be inclined to give that new printer concept a try as it opens a can of questions and possible problems:

• It is not practicable to print many documents
• The quality of the printout differs
• Only black and white printouts
• Coffee or tea dregs required to print

The RiTi printer could on the other hand prove to be the printer of choice for environmentally interested users who do occasional printouts.

source Greener Gadgets

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DVD Print is a small program for the Windows operating system. It is a portable software program that will ask for a registration code upon start. This can be skipped however and there are no information on the website or in the application about the registration process (and what could happen if the registration is skipped continuously).

CD and DVD covers can be loaded in the application. A built in search can be used to find appropriate covers. The covers are however not downloaded directly in the software as they redirect the user to the website the cover was found on. It is then the user’s task to download the cover and import it into the DVD printing application.

Various cover presets are available ranging from DVD box covers over audio CD front inserts to Playstation 1 double sleeves. There is also the option to create a new preset in case the existing ones are not suitable for the media.

There is also the option to add image effects to the cover which include the creation of a double-feature cover (for two movies on one DVD), music track overlays or flipping and rotating images around. DVD Print is a portable application that can be downloaded directly from the developer’s website.

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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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The CUPS web administration tool is easy to work with and can be used on any distribution that has CUPS installed. In this article you will see how simple it is to add a printer to a Linux system via the CUPS web interface.

Getting and installing

Although CUPS is usually installed on most distibutions, it might be best to show how this printing system is installed. The easiest method is to open up the Add/Remove Software utility, do a search for “cups” (no quotes), select the results, and apply the changes. If you prefer the command line you can do something like this (from terminal window):

yum install cups

NOTE: You must have root privileges for the above.

sudo apt-get install cups

After the installation is complete, the cups daemon should start itself. If you find it has not you can start it with one of the following commands:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start

NOTE: The above will require root privileges.

sudo /etc/init.d/cups start

Getting to and using the web interface

You might think you need a web server installed for this. You don’t. The CUPS system has its own server that will serve up the web interface, so you do not have to install Apache. To get to this interface open up your browser and enter:

http://localhost:631

Figure 1

The first page you will see will be that shown in Figure 1. From this page you can take care of all of your printer needs. You can manage print jobs, manage printers, create and manage printer classes, and read CUPS documentation.

In order to add a printer click on the Administration tab  and then click the Add Printer button (see Figure 2).

Figure 2

Once you click on the Add Printer button you will walk through a printer setup wizard. Most of the steps in this wizard should be fairly straight forward. Below is the list of the information you will need to supply for adding your printer:

Name: Name your printer (no spaces, “/”, or “#” characters).

Location: Human readable location for the printer.

Description: Human readable description of your printer.

Device: How the printer interfaces with your machine. This could be LPT, SCSI, AppSocket, Samba, Internet Printing Protocol, etc. If your printer is attached locally you will most likely see it in this listing.

Device URI: If you are using IPP you will need to supply this address which will look something like ipp://IP_ADDRESS_TO_PRINTER_SERVER/SPOOL

Where IP_ADDRESS_TO_PRINTER is the actual IP address for your printer server and SPOOL is the name of the spool your printer is attached to.

Make: The brand of your printer.

Model: The model of your printer.

During the last step (selecting the Model of your printer) you will click the button “Add Printer” at which point you will have to supply the username and password of the user who is allowed to make these changes. This will either be the root user or a your standard user (if using sudo).

Figure 3

Once the printer is added you will see it listed in the Printers tab. The listing of each printer (see Figure 3) will allow you take a number of actions on a printer including:

• Print test page
• Stop printer
• Reject jobs
• Move all jobs
• Cancel all jobs
• Unpublish printer
• Modify printer
• Set printer options
• Delete printer
• Set as default
• Set allowed users

Final thoughts

Setting up a printer in Linux is actually quite simple. And having a standardized interface means setting up a printer can be the same no matter what distribution you are using.

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If you want to print a webpage you are either stuck to selecting a piece of text, or printing the whole page as is. If you are lucky there’s a printable version, but this removes everything except the text, so again, not too flexible. Print What You Like let’s you enter a website which it renders for you, enabling you to remove any elements you don’t need.

The flexibility here is really great, you can literally add or remove any element whatsoever. You can select paragraphs and resize them horizontally and vertically, all content will get pushed along as it should. You can even change the text size and the text font.

You can remove all images and backgrounds with one click if that’s all you need, but tweaking is up to you, you can delete as much or as little as you want. There is also an option to add more pages, taking text or images from multiple sources, you could create a little web-book of your favorite posts of the week.

The features are really great and printing what you need has never been made so easy. Just a tiny addition, the ability to move items on page would have been nice. This is a great idea and it is executed very well, I recommend this to anyone with printing needs, in the end you might spend less ink on it, saving you money and helping the environment.

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A click on the Print Now button will send the print job to the local printer so that the ID card photo can be printed the selected amount of times on the page.

There is not anything special about this printing software and the same effect could be initiated by almost any software that can display images and provide printing possibilities. The main advantage of using ID card photo printing software is the ease of use. It does not take longer than a few seconds to start the print job whereas it usually takes longer to do the same in non-specialized software programs.

ID Card Photo is compatible with most versions and editions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It can be downloaded directly from the developer’s website and requires that at least one printer is installed on the computer system.

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Printing web pages can be quite a headache sometimes. More often than not, half the page is taken up by advertisements, menu bars, empty space, and other information that a user just doesn’t want. You pretty much wind up wasting printer ink on a bunch of junk information.

One way to make printing more relevant to a web page is to use PrintWhatYouLike. The website helps you format web pages so that you can print exactly what you need. Not only does it make printing more efficient and cheap (because you don’t waste ink on junk info) but also it ensures you do your bit for the environment.

Using PrintWhatYouLike is extremely easy. Enter the url of the page you want to print in the box on the website. The web page then shows up with a formatting bar on the left-hand side. The bar has plenty of features, to optimize your printing experience.

The PrintWhatYouLike formatting bar has options that allow you to set the printing area for your web page. Then you can remove selected areas of the page, certain images, or even the page background. Finally, you can change the size of the text and the font itself, which is great for all those pages with hard-to-read text. As a bonus feature, you can combine more than one page while printing.

I tried out PrintWhatYouLike and came away impressed. It’s fast, easy to use and serves the purpose it advertises. Plus, it’s web-based so there’s no need to install an additional application. If you regularly print web pages, I recommend using the PrintWhatYouLike bookmarklet.

What do you think of this website? In your opinion, what’s the most efficient way to print a web page without unnecessary elements? Do you know of other similar sites? Let me know in the comments.

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HP Smart Web Printing (thanks Archer for the tip) adds a button to Internet Explorer and Firefox after installation. This button was immediately accessible in Internet Explorer. It is added to the Navigation Toolbar in Firefox which is disabled on my system by default. I had to enable the toolbar and drag and drop the button to another toolbar in Firefox to be able to access it.

Clips can be selected by pressing the HP Smart Select button and the sidebar that displays all created clips can be opened with the shortcut SHIFT CTRL K or by selecting the menu of the button.

The HP Smart Web Printing application integrates itself nicely into both browsers and provides a very interesting feature to be able to print exactly the area of the screen that should be printed. Definitely a must have for users who print regularly.

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