Printing a long web page

One of my friends asked me how to efficiently print out a very long web page. He wanted as much as possible of the content on the page to fit into 1 pape so he can save his valuable papers.

This is interesting.

Say you use IE to browse the internet. You find an interesting page, and want to print it out for later reading. Often, you will find some contents of the printed page missing. Sometimes are at the long end, sometimes are at the width end. What a nuisance !

I had this problem before. My problem is solved by the help of a utility called "Fineprint".

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After you install "Fineprint", you will have another virtual printer called, "Fineprint" in your printer folder. If you print anything throught this fineprint printer, it will give you a lot of options to play with your printout.

Let's focus on only the printing of the long page.

When you want to print a long web page, you will do this (after the fineprint is installed):

1. Click the "Print Preview", and see if the page you want fits in 1 page or it covers enought content.
2. If you want it to cover more contents, click "Page Setup" icon.
3. In page setup, change the paper size to make it bigger, longer or whatever to make it cover all of your contents
4. Click OK to bring you back to the page setup window. Now more of your contents should go into 1 page. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to suit your need
5. Click "Print ..." and set your page range, hightlight Fineprint printer, then click "Print" button. This will invoke the "Fineprint" window.
6. Adjust the Layout. Check the last preview, then click "Print and Close" to do a real printing.

It is not complicate as it seems. Give it a try.