I think there's a nomenclature issue here. If you have a button on
the page that says...

*Print*
The user clicking this will expect the page to print but will not be
given the chance to preview the output before their print dialogue
appears.

*Print(er) Friendly*
The user will click expecting to see a printer friendly version
appear that they can then decide whether to print or copy/paste as
detailed by previous respondents.

The fact remains that the most elegant solution is to use a print CSS
but perhaps we could combine the two button scenarios by using a
combination (accepting that the copy/paste is '20 rather than 80'):

'Print simplified page'

or (if button space isn't a problem)

'Print (our pages are printer friendly)'

and variations thereof which would intend to inform the user that
their action was going to print the page directly but that the
version they saw would be printer friendly.



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