March 2010 Task: Print-Friendly Tools

March 2010 Task: Print-Friendly Tools

I went to printfriendly.com and watched the "How It Works" video.

After watching the video, I opened up a new tab and navigated to gjsentinel.com and clicked on an article with the headline," Hilkey Hopes Escapee Still Within Grasp".

Then, i copied the URL of the article and pasted it into printfriendly.com.

The original article was 6 pages long. After pasting it into printfriendly.com, the article was 2 pages long. Printfriendly took out the headline, 3 images, a directory, comments, share, related articles, an advertisement, job index, site selections, customer service, contact links, and directory of the paper. Then, I removed a paragraph of text, then removed a whole timeline, and then used undo to put the timeline back in.

Then, I went to the print preview of the article on the Firefox browser. I highlighted the text I wanted and left out all the other stuff. I got the same thing that I had ended up with when I used the printfriendly site. The only difference was that I got the headline of the article when I used print preview.

The main advantage I can see of the printfriendly site is that it is quicker. I think, perhaps, there may be other types of sites besides newspapers that would produce more dramatic results. For instance, virtually any site from which online shopping can be done.