How to Offer a print-friendly version of your wordpress website?

As Web pages get more and more complex with images, ads, and links all over the place, they become harder and harder for people to read. Combine that with the eye-strain caused by most monitors and you create an environment where people want to print out Web pages.

Many Web designers feel that if a Web page is written for the Web, that's where it should be read. But some Web pages can be difficult to read online, either because of the ads and flashing blinking images, or because they are so long that it's easier to read them in print. For how to articles, it's easier to have the article printed out to follow along with, perhaps writing notes or checking off the steps as they are completed.

Print Friendly and PDF Button for WordPress websites:  http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/printfriendly.3.0.8.zip

Description

The Print Friendly & PDF button saves paper and ink when printing or creating a PDF. It's fast, easy, and looks great when printed. Add the button now, and your users will see the difference.
How Print Friendly & PDF Works
The Print Friendly & PDF button automatically creates printer friendly and PDF versions of your pages without the hassle of having to create a print CSS file. No coding, hacking or programming required. Simply install the Print Friendly & PDF plugin, activate, and choose settings for full customization. It also gives your user the ability to remove images and paragraphs of text, so they really only have to print exactly what they want.
Cool Features For You:

• Get a Printer Friendly and PDF button for your users.
• Fully Customizable! Choose your favorite print and PDF button, use a text link, or use your own graphic.
• Get precision placement with easy to change margins, alignment, and pages for your Print and PDF button.
• On-Page-Lightbox. Have you noticed that other printer friendly buttons open new windows, or tabs? Not with Print Friendly & PDF button. It opens in a Lightbox so you your users stay on the page, and your wp website.
• Professional looking print and PDF buttons and user experience.
• More repeats and new users. Your brand/URL are printed on the page or saved in the PDF so users remember your site and new users can find you.

Cool Print Features for Users: * Optimizes pages for printing and PDF so you save money and the environment. * You can Print or get a PDF. * Edit the page before printing or getting a PDF: remove the images and paragraphs you don't need to save ink!

Installation

1. Search for PrintFriendly in your WordPress backend and click install, or download the printfriendly.zip file and unzip it.
2. If you downloaded the zip, upload the printfriendly folder into wp-content/plugins folder
3. Activate the plugin in your WordPress Admin area.
4. Select "Settings" to customize button style and placement.

FAQ

I set the button to align left / right and it doesn't align right!

Check whether your theme includes the required CSS class, PrintFriendly uses these to align your button. If that doesn't work for you, uncheck the "Add CSS to Pages" checkbox and style the button yourself.

The Print Friendly button is loading but it's not doing anything, what's wrong?

Check the "JavaScript fallback" checkbox in the settings and check again. If the button starts working now, the JavaScript isn't loading correctly. Check your source for a mention of cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js. If it's not there, make sure your theme has the required wp_footer call.

Some of the input fields in the admin are disabled!

If you've disabled the loading of CSS and / or set "Add PrintFriendly To" to Manual, some of the input boxes will be disabled as you've basically disabled that functionality.

I'm manually adding the button but it's aligning wrong!

If you're getting unexpected results, you might want to set Horizontal Alignment to "None".

I still need help!

If you have any other issues with the plugin or the PrintFriendly widget, please write to support@printfriendly.com.