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Print stylesheets
Absolutely! This is one of my greatest bugbears; the lack of appropriate print support forces me to block, copy and paste text into a wordprocessor; often a messy process. Use an appropriate font; usually sans serif is used on screens, but with serifs is often preferred for text. It helps greatly to have a well-structured website with common templates, and as few variations as possible in these. Not only does this help the user understand the site, but it also simplifies the building of a print style sheet.

I tend not to be quite as simplistic as suggested. I use parts of the heading rather than no heading, so that the logo appears. Likewisae, I want the copyright notice in the footer to print. This is easily done with the appropriate structuring of the header and footer.

And do things with links:
- show them, if they are part of the text, but without the underlining, and
- don't bother showing them if they stand by themselves. This is also easily done with the appropriate class definitions.

- Ed
Posted by edbrandon@...
15th Aug 2011