Entries tagged with printing - Channel 10

Make Any Site Printer-Friendly

sarahintampa — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:08:00 GMT

You know what’s really annoying? When you go to print out something from the web but the site has no “print” button to reformat the website for the printed page. What you usually end up with (if you’re not careful about configuring the options after doing a thorough “print preview”) is a bunch of wasted paper as excess content like ads and page footers end up on separate pages. There should be a better way, don’t you think? Well, there is. A site called PrintWhatYouLike.com lets you simply plugin a URL and then click the parts of the page you want to print. You can also choose to get rid of things like the site’s background, images, or other hand-selected content you choose. In absence of a real print reformatting engine, this is the next best thing. (via MakeUseOf)

Automatically Find Local Printers

sarahintampa — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Seriously cool! Recently, I read about the new Xerox Mobile Express Driver that lets you automatically detect all the available printers in your vicinity - even the ones that are non-Xerox - and then downloads and installs the appropriate drivers automatically. Keep in mind that this software won’t get you connected the office printer at your favorite wi-fi hotspot, but it will help you find printers when you plug into the corporate network of the client you’re visiting or the printers over at your friend’s house. The software is dead simple to install and use, but you will need to be connected to the internet for the installation to work. When you’re ready to print, just choose the Xerox Mobile printer that will now be in your printer list and the software scans and adds available printers. You can even assign a name to the location so you won’t have to scan and re-add printers next time you’re there. (via CNet)

Green Printing

sarahintampa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:04:00 GMT

There's a new free edition of the popular GreenPrint software, called GreenPrint World Edition. The software, aimed at home users and non-profits, is designed to combat printing waste. The way the software works is by analyzing each page sent to a printer for extraneous content like banner ads, legal jargon, footnotes, or other unnecessary pages. These sections are highlighted in red for you to see before printing. If you want to print a page or section that has been detected as unnecessary, just double-click on it to include it in the document. You can also double-click on areas that are un-highlighted to prevent them from printing. According to the company, using GreenPrint can save you $90 per year and 1400 wasted pages. The software can also be used to create PDFs and it does reporting on the toner and paper savings you've accumulated by using it. GreenPrint World Edition is free by being ad-supported; to turn off the ads, you can upgrade to Home Premium Edition or for business use, there's an Enterprise Edition available. (via downloadsquad)

Moo MiniCards

Larry — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:20:00 GMT

What if it were easy to have printed 100 business card-sized miniature calling cards, all with different pictures on one side and some text on the other side, for a relatively inexpensive price of say, $20. You'd probably think of more than a few uses for that, right?

That's what Moo allows you to do with their MiniCards service. You can browse their designs or use your own, even pulling your photos from Flickr or several other online services, crop, add up to 6 lines of text on the reverse, and the next thing you know you've got a box of custom cards in your mailbox.