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Just Click Print!
It's a Piece of Cake to Print Text and Images off the Net
Are you doing a little research on the Net for your company newsletter? Or maybe you've found some cool images on a website you'd like to print out and keep on your office wall? Well, go ahead and click "Print," and your research articles, cartoons, even your IRS forms can soon be rolling off your printer.
You have three easy ways to capture and print information off the web.
1. Go to your file menu and select "Print."
This is the only method that easily prints web graphics, and often they're the sweetest stuff on the Internet. Take Idea Cafe's Biz Award of the Week, for example. With fun, colorful graphics, it turns your DeskJet or other color printer into a colorful printing press of awards and "pick-me-ups" for your employees and associates.
By going to the File menu of your web browser and selecting "Print," you can print out all the graphics and text on a web page. It's easy, and it doesn't take very long, since most web graphics are 72 dpi, which print quickly.
2. Save As Text and import it into a word processing program.
If you want to save the text of a web page, and maybe even file it, use it, or manipulate it on your computer before you print it out, you have another option. Go to the file menu and select "Save As." Be sure the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box says "text." Then name your file and click "Save." Now you can open it in a word processing file and alter the font, margins, whatever. This is particularly useful if you're doing research and want to compile articles you've found online. (To learn how to capture graphics off the web for manipulation and printing, read Reach Out and Capture a Graphic from Idea Cafe's Fridge.)
3. Drag your mouse across text in your browser and copy and paste it into another program.
If you just want to save a small segment of text from a web page, such as a name or address to add to a database, just drag your mouse across the text, and copy and paste it into another program. This method is also handy if you want to email something you found on the web to someone, because you can paste it into the body of an email message.
A few other options that are a little less easy.
Often, online magazines will create a printable version of their magazine, and make it available for download. Then you need to open it in a compatible program. Slate, an online magazine located at www.slate.com, offers a printable version every Friday that can be opened in either Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader. The IRS and many state treasury departments offer tax forms and instructions downloadable from the Internet that you can open in Acrobat Reader and print out, as does the U.S. Postal Service. Download time will depend on the size of the file and your connection speed. (Go to www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html to download Acrobat Reader for free.)
With any of these methods, remember not to use copyrighted material for any other use than what it was intended for (and almost all material on the web is copyrighted.) To make absolutely sure you have the right to reprint material you find on the web, use Idea Cafe's Reprint Permission Form from the Fridge.
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