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Print Friendly Web Page
Introduction
Under Student Links (https://www.sno.wednet.edu/Page/2408 ) on the Library Media Center’s web page there are many different applications students may use for completing their classroom assignments. One of my favorite student links is Print Friendly. Print Friendly allows people to enter an URL and it will strip out the ads and all the extra fluff leaving just the article to print. This save on paper and toner when printing documents off web pages. Example: last year, there was an article from a web page all freshmen needed to print out for a research assignment. If the student printed the web article without using Print Friendly, then the article was 13 pages. However, when students used Print Friendly the article was only 6 pages. Using Print Friendly saved over 3,000 sheets of paper for just this one article. You might want to share this application with your students for projects in which your students need to print out web pages.
Steps in Locating Print Friendly on the LMC Web Page
Click on the Student link on the LMC home page - https://www.sno.wednet.edu/Page/1343 .
Click on Print Friendly to open dropdown menu - https://www.sno.wednet.edu/Page/2408 .
Click on the Print Friendly URL to launch web page - http://www.printfriendly.com/ .
Example of Using Print Friendly
Let’s say a student was researching Yellowstone bison for a class and they found this USA Today article on their web page. All the student would have to do is copy the URL,
paste the URL in Print Friendly, and click on Preview.
Print Friendly took out all the banner, side clips, and ads from this article and the student is left with just the article. The student may print, make a PDF, or email the article to themselves.
Print Friendly is no always perfect when it pulls out an article, but I have found this application to work with most of the URLs students have used with this program. I highly recommend you use this application with your students when they need to print out several articles for a classroom assignment.