Printing Web Sites
Lexmark did a survey to find out people’s behavior when it comes to the websites that they print. Probably one of the most common things people print at home is directions from the web. If you aren’t using your printer for homework assignments or for printing photos, then other than receipts and records, what’s left besides printing directions? In their survey, they found that 79% of men have no problem printing out directions from the web vs. the 19% who said they would rather stop for them. Who the heck would rather stop for directions….?
They found out that people don’t like printing stuff off websites because of ads, pictures and things being cut off. They also found out that people would still rather read newspapers than print out the stories from the websites and that George Clooney is the “most printable” actor. We can all sleep at night now that we know that.
File, Print, Frustration: Lexmark survey says Web has great info but it’s a pain to get it ‘to go’ [Press Release]
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July 2nd, 2006 at 10:18 am
Printing from an internet browser is a pain most of the time. The first thing is definitely the ads. They hog ink and they eat up a lot of paper space. Worse, you cannot judge the margins or in fact anything. After you get the print out you realize that half of your ink is gone and you do not have the whole page. It’s a better option to keep the webpages saved for future use. Then, if you really want to print some webpages, you can use a program to remove the extra stuff.
October 18th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
At least two of the major manufacturers, Canon and Epson, have free utilities to print web pages with their printers, scaled to letter paper size, so text and images will not be cut off. Do always choose the “printer friendly” version of a web page if it’s avaialable. Otherwise, download these web print utilities from the manufacturer of your printer. Canon’s utility is called
Easy-WebPrint and Epson’s is called Web-to-Page.