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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Easier ways to print a complete website?

Where I work we have need to print out every page of many websites each week. This has been done the usual, lond-winded way - visit each page, File > Print. This laborious task was complicated by the fact that many of the links on these sites go to anchors on the same pages, so the person printing these had to make sure they didn't print duplicates.

There had to be a better way.

A web trawl turned up this page, giving instructions on how to print whole sites in Internet Explorer. This is ok as far as it goes, but doesn't work in all circumstances. For instance, the navigation method on the sites we need to print is purely by javascript jump menu. The method stated here doesn't pick up javascript links at all.

The best solution I can find so far is a bit of a compromise, but does speed up the job. It uses a program I'd never heard of before called Web PrintSmart 2.0 by HP. This is available free, but, as far as I can tell, can't be found on the HP websites any more. You can still find copies out there, hosted by various people. At time of writing you could find this at http://www.poolemporium.com/wps20.zip

It basically allows you to quickly make a 'collection' of pages by clicking through a site, then you can print them all at once with a couple of clicks. If you try this, make sure to turn on the option to automatically add pages to your collection (in the edit menu).

Posted by d - 6:10 pm - 0 Comments

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