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Web Pages these days are getting stuffed with loads of flashing blinking banners and images which can strain your eyes and also some pages are too long hence it gets difficult for the user to read out every information on the page and it is a user wish to have that information on a piece of paper.

So make a visitor happy by adding a printer friendly option to your web page.


Friendly surroundings for a Printer Friendly Page

1)As the usage of black and white printer is in majority so web pages with rich background colors aren't printer friendly as they consume up a lot of ink.

2)Serif fonts are easy to print on the page and also most web pages are written in sans-serif.

3)The font size while taking out the prints from the web pages having small font size should be rest to 12px or higher.

4)Highlighting all the links on a web page using a different color will help in identifying the links on a color print out.

5)Providing an option to open the content of a page in a different window is suggested as it will avoid printing out navigation and banners.

6)Jquery and flash pages are not very printer friendly.

7)Include a original url at the bottom of the article to ensure returning visitors.

8)Copyrights notification at the end of the article so that no one can use it.


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