Print What You Like is an online web page editor that enables you to modify websites inside the browser without requiring any software or add-ons.
Printer friendly version of Digital Inspiration
For instance, it will take less than five clicks to create a print version of this site to make sure that no images, advertising banners and sidebars show up on paper. See demo:
Printwhatyoulike.com works like a shooting gun for web pages – you select an element with your mouse, press the del key and that disappears forever.
The tools also lets you change the size and type of fonts used in web pages. You may expand the width of sections so that they occupy the full page and you therefore save some paper.
Now if you publish a website, it is highly recommend that you create a separate print.css for your visitors but in case you come across sites that aren’t printer friendly, Print What You Like will definitely prove useful. More resources:
- Use Less Ink When Printing Web Pages
- Edit Any Web Page in your Browser Just Like a Wiki
- Do Not Waste Paper When Printing Word Documents
- Most Useful Blog Add-Ons & Tools
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Reader Comments
Hello, the font of “print version” in the first image is lovely.
Can you tell me the name of this font?
Written by istart on 09.18.08
Seems like a good idea, especially to battle web designers who don’t put forth the extra effort to create the print.css file (I’m guilty!). However, I hate having to install one more piece of software… I’m somewhat of a software minimalist. Maybe if this feature were built into a web browsers….?
Written by JB on 09.18.08
That can save a lot of trees.
“save Paper Save Trees”
-Chris
Written by About Online Tips on 09.18.08
A similar one is Aardvark, firefox add-on
Written by Teejay on 09.18.08
Thanks for the kind words.
JB: PrintWhatYouLike is just a plain old website- there are thankfully no plugins or apps to install. You just have to enter the url of the page you wish to edit, and the site will take care of the rest.
Teejay: the site is similar to aardvark, but PrintWhatYouLike has many features you wont find in aardvark, such as the ability to merge pages together, save changes, select text, and select multiple elements at once.
Written by Jonathan on 09.18.08
I have tried ‘PrintWhatYouLike’ with this page.
It works very slow.
I usually make this work in the following way:
1. Open WinWord -> NewDocument page appears
2. Select required documents from WebPage, copy them and paste into NewDocument.
3. Afterward you can send the result by email (File -> Send To), print it and so on…
And it more fast.
Written by Maxim Tseitlin on 09.21.08