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Discussion on: Paper as a Platform

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C.S. Rhymes

I’ve used @media print {} in css quite a lot in the past for this. Something I found is that it usually treats the page as a mobile layout so responsive grids don’t often work as expected.

One other tip, Chrome offers a print css rendering mode to help you preview your page.

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Justin Mancinelli

Oh, the chrome print rendering mode is a very good tip!

Do you work with a print designer (or web designer with print experience) to define what's expected?

How well can you test for and implement for portrait/landscape, page size, b&w/color, etc?

Another problem I just remembered was one site had deferred image loading so when I had reopened to print an article, the images below the fold didn't print. I had to scroll down the whole thing first then print to get all the images. Have you dealt with that before?