Save Ink, Save Paper, Print Friendly
I had been using GreenPrint for awhile (until my free trial ran out) but I have found that printfriendly works just as well for me and it’s free. GreenPrint does offer a free “World” version, but not for Macs. Responsible printing via GreenPrint for OSX will cost you $29 last time I checked. Not bad, but not free. Perhaps they offer some features you just can’t do without. I’ll leave that up to you.
For my purposes, printfriendly is does the trick. So what does it do? Have you ever gone to print something from the Web only to find out that your one page article took up three pieces of paper? Instead of a neat, easy-to-read article you ended up with a page full of ads, various superfluous buttons and links, comments you weren’t interested in, and all that legalese hiding down at the bottom of the page. Very annoying, and wasteful.
With services like printfriendly, you can choose exactly what you want printed and what you want left behind, saving you a good amount of paper and ink over the long haul and making your articles much easier to read in the now.
You can click and drag a printfriendly button to your browser toolbar, or enter the URL of the page you want to print in the box on their website (just drag the button - much easier). See something you want to print? Hit the toolbar button and go to work. You can remove all images, remove only certain portions, or convert a page into a PDF file. Heck, you can even choose to email or Tweet directly from printfriendly (though I think you are stuck using your computer’s built in mail program - no web based email as far as I can tell, though I may be missing something).
Finally, if you have a website or blog you can put a printfriendly button on there for everyone to use. Check out their website for instructions.
There are a ton of great apps out there if you can find them. However, among those, only a handful prove to be useful over the long run. Printfriendly definitely looks like a winner. Save money while being a good steward. Hard to argue with that.
Check out there video to learn more.
