Printer friendly is a term used on the Internet to describe a version of a web page formatted for printing. Normally, web pages include information and navigation content that is only useful while browsing the website. Wikipedia

Printer-friendly optimization is targeted at websites with huge content and/or text articles, offered as a plus for visitors and loyal customers to read the respective content offline printed on a A4 paper. Various articles pointed that a high percetange of users prefers to read articles or essayes printed rather than online.

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Most newspapers and important websites delivers a printer-friendly version of a web page, as majority of users prefer to print out web page; The perfect layout of a printer-friendly web page version is a logo of respective website and the article itself;

Majority of web sites owners removes ads, menu and unecessary elements to deliver what's required: content;

A printer-friendly version can be offered either by inserting a link or icon to notice user that the current web page is printer-friendly, either automatically without inserting in the design a link/icon.

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