Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Printing webpages

Do you still print webpages to save information for later? I do; I occasionally print out recipes if I want to keep them or even articles I use in my Computing for Seniors class or for Sunday School. Today's tip is from a screencast I made 4 years ago; I found it when I was looking for something else. This screencast shows how to print a webpage without all the ads/extras from a laptop/desktop computer, but the information is also partially applicable to phones and tablets. Take a look-- http://screencast-o-matic.com/u/uTc/printingtips (best viewed by clicking the square in the lower right hand corner to display fullscreen view)

In the screencast, I talk about:
1) using the Printer-Friendly icon on a webpage
2) selecting just the text you want to print
3) looking at your Print Dialogue box and choosing just the pages you want to print as well as printing in black and white
4) using the "Reader's View" on Apple products to print without advertisements and graphics. 
Update since the screencast was made:  Reader's View on an iPhone is now denoted by an upper case A and a lower case A at the left edge of the address bar, not the three lines mentioned in the Screencast; see the illustration below:



Note:  I do use Reader's View on my iPhone quite often, not just when printing webpages.  I find that reading news stories is made so much easier by clicking the Aa and selecting Reader's View.

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