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1 year ago
in A Better Way To Print This Blog on A VC
Fred,
That widget doesn't print any better than the standard page— paper and ink being wasted left and right. Plus, the experience doesn't look a whole lot better than the original "for the web" content.
After HP bought us, we looked at this problem from exactly this perspective— make is less wasteful— and then decided to add convenience and esthetics to it as well. Go check out what we're doing for TechCrunch for a good example of the former, or see what the print button does to my blog to see an example of the esthetics.
Now granted, we seem to have caught the big company disease of being poor at communicating this to the rest of the world, but you can get started here with either approach.
Waste from printing is a huge deal which is not lost of folks at HP.
That widget doesn't print any better than the standard page— paper and ink being wasted left and right. Plus, the experience doesn't look a whole lot better than the original "for the web" content.
After HP bought us, we looked at this problem from exactly this perspective— make is less wasteful— and then decided to add convenience and esthetics to it as well. Go check out what we're doing for TechCrunch for a good example of the former, or see what the print button does to my blog to see an example of the esthetics.
Now granted, we seem to have caught the big company disease of being poor at communicating this to the rest of the world, but you can get started here with either approach.
Waste from printing is a huge deal which is not lost of folks at HP.
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loupaglia
I tend to agree Antonio. I do like that you can export a post to PDF for storing locally, sure beats downloading all the HTML and related images to have the page sit offline (if you aren't using Google Reader and Gears). But for printing, I tested the app on a couple of posts and there was no discernible benefit if your goal was to in fact get the blog to a piece of paper, say to hand out in a meeting. This post we are in came out to be six pages, just as if I can printed it directly from the browser.
