Printer Friendly Module

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This is a very useful module. Works great if you have some good commentary or something on your ministry site. It gives people an easy option to be able to print the content without all the rest of the menus and such and with minimum amount of ink.
http://drupal.org/project/print

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Printer Friendly with CSS

If this module doesn't do what you need you can always make this with CSS. Just have a style sheet with the media attribute set to print. When someone goes to print that page it will be laid out per that sheet.

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Actually seems to work very

Actually seems to work very well. I have a book on CSS which I hope to learn. Right now most CSS I can kinda figure out where I am at looking at it, but thats about as far as I can go right now. But let me see if I understand what your saying here correctly. The way you saying, The page will look as it normally does but when actually printing, is where the style sheet comes in?

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CSS Media Types

You'll notice that your style sheets can have an attribute called media when you link to them in the head. This is designed to tell the media that this style sheet is one for them to use. You can have one for all media, screens, mobile devices, and printers. In the page include all the style sheets but tell them what device they are for.

In this case you would have a style sheet that lays out your page for printers. You can hide things, reposition them, and basically lay out a page just for that device.

Make sense?

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That would be kinda cool to

That would be kinda cool to set it up for mobil devices and such. Im definately going to be looking into that one in the future. I even recalled you guys talked about this topic of mobile devices in one of your episodes I think.