Web Page Printing Instructions

In the upper right corner on most pages is a darkroom enlarger icon above the words Print Friendly. The enlarger icon looks like the one in the upper right corner of this page.  If you do not see the icon on this page, then either your browser or firewall software is interpreting the icon as a banner ad and is preventing its display.  If you wish to see the icon, you must modify your software's privacy settings.  Even if you do not see the darkroom enlarger, you should still be able to click the words Print Friendly.

If you click the icon or the words Print Friendly, the content currently being displayed will appear in a new browser window.  Printing from this print friendly window will give cleaner text than printing from the normal window.  After printing, you can click the Go Back link to return to the original page.

Why a darkroom enlarger instead of the web standard printer icon?  Because in traditional photography, it was the darkroom enlarger that gave us our prints.
 

Left and Right Margins

The print friendly pages were designed to print on both letter size paper (with left/right margins of 1" or less) and A4 size paper (with left/right margins of 25mm or less).  If your margins are set to less than this, that is ok.  If they are wider, then the right hand side of the text will be truncated.

Do not be concerned if in the print friendly window there is no left margin in the browser window.  When printing, the amount of left margin is determined by the margin settings for the printer (as described above).  Not the browser window margin you see on the screen.
 

Automatic Page Breaks

Some of the print friendly pages have page breaks coded in them.  This will cause the printer to eject the current page before printing the next.  This was done to ensure certain content stays together.