>  Without a 'Printer Friendly' pop-up, they would need to use the bowser 'Page
>  Preview' to view the page in this manner.

If I click on a print button on a web page, I expect to /see/ the
printer-friendly version. If the button just pops up the browser's
print dialog, my reaction is to wonder whether I'm really going to get
a printer-friendly version. Am I out of touch/crazy/paranoid?

> if there's a particular page that people are urged to
> print, you can just include a button that calls upon the system's
> printing mechanism, and you don't need a separate page

Our goal is to make pages in general print-friendly, and to offer the
print option for particularly print-oriented pages.

When talking about the context of a web application that users will be
[-come] familiar with, we might be able to make the assumption that
they will learn that pages are printer-friendly by default, but I
don't think you could assume that users at large would know that. Even
a web-savvy user doesn't know ahead of time whether the page has a
print stylesheet, unless it's by experience.

Or is my experience out of touch with what others have observed?

  Owen

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Web Developer
Athens County Public Libraries
http://www.myacpl.org
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