Print Web Pages with Lexmark’s New Web Printing Toolbar

Don’t you hate how badly most web pages print? Wait. I don’t print web pages. Well, if you do, don’t you hate how badly they print?

Lexmark would like you to use your printer more to print more stuff, and one sure way to get you to do that is to help you print more web pages.

To alleviate the frustration of printing from the Web, Lexmark has developed the Lexmark Web Toolbar. The toolbar makes it quick and easy for users to print what they need from the Web. With a few simple clicks, users can:

• Print text only, eliminating ads and other unwanted images
• Print the entire Web page without cutting off images or text
• Print only in black
• Print borderless photos from Web sites
• Preview their selections before printing

Lexmark users can download the Lexmark Web Toolbar for free from http://toolbar.lexmark.com.

Installation was pretty easy… though I had to restart IE to get it to pop up.

It worked terrific. I printed http://www.cnn.com and it came out looking like a well formatted newspaper. Above is the before (printed with standard IE print on the left) and the after (printed with the Lexmark toolbar)

The printout was really very good quality. The artifacts you see on the illustration here were not on the paper output (just the PDF version) which is odd. I’ve never seen such a nice, simple system for putting web pages on paper. It will be terrific for those of us who want to take copies of other web sites to client meetings.

No firefox or Macintosh version yet, from what I can tell.

Text Only Output of CNN.COM

The Photo printing works nicely too. It did a good job of grabbing all the photos on the page and getting them prepped for printing. It was a nice, simple interface designed with ink consumption in mind, of course.

Photo Extraction and Printing.

But if you want a simple, efficient way of grabbing content to send to your printer or PDF file, this is the best I’ve seen.

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