My “Strange” template does not print correctly. It displays just fine, but when I print or print preview, it prints in a single column with no formatting. It’s as if there is no css file, but only with respect to printing. Can anyone assist?
Here’s the URL test page… www.elizabethleonard.com/index-beth.html
This is just something that happens sometimes:
http://mattmedia.net/2009/12/03/why-your-web-pages-print-badly-and-how-to-fix-them/
There are many many reasons why this can happen, mostly to do with the style sheet. Your best bet is to contact the author and they may have a solution or if not screengrab and print that!
Hope it helps
Try printing this page you’re on now – you’ll see that it’s the same thing. Most sites are not optimized for print, since that’s not their purpose.
Try this:
- open that HTML page in a text editor.
- look for
<!--Load Stylesheet--> - replace
media="screen"in those 3 following lines withmedia="all"
Note: this is just a quick-fix / try, for the best looks you’ll need specific CSS styles for print. What I did above will most likely print the website as is and whoever prints it will hate you, as it will drain their color cartridge
Read the article Charlie posted above.
Wow, you guys are very helpful. The media=”all” worked as a quick fix as you said, but did not address everything. I guess I’ll have to forget that idea, or else find a different template. I had never run across this before, so it was a surprise to see it happen.
Thanks for the quick responses, I was out of pocket for a few days, so I couldn’t respond with the appreciation.
