I would find this message rather rude. I am interested in saving trees, but do not think technology offers me a solution yet. I print out of necessity.
Of course, this was a joke more than anything. Printing the web is fine when it is needed.
I'm talking people going to a news website, printing the article, reading it and discarding the resulting paper afterward. Unless you need to annotate or use the printed articles in some of the ways you listed, you shouldn't be printing all the articles you see.
It still makes me suffer a lot though because optimizing for printing us clearly not the norm.
Also, I frequently cache articles by printing to PDFs not knowing a better way of capturing a static snapshot of a web page into a single file. I do not print these, but the resulting PDFs suffer from the same layout issues. Also, links do not get converted. (Several PDF software makers supply plugins for Microsoft Office, but almost none for web browsers.) I am happy to hear if someone has a better solution for this (other than using Internet archiving for such cashing).
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See my comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609711
I would find this message rather rude. I am interested in saving trees, but do not think technology offers me a solution yet. I print out of necessity.
Of course, this was a joke more than anything. Printing the web is fine when it is needed.
I'm talking people going to a news website, printing the article, reading it and discarding the resulting paper afterward. Unless you need to annotate or use the printed articles in some of the ways you listed, you shouldn't be printing all the articles you see.
That matches my understanding too.
It still makes me suffer a lot though because optimizing for printing us clearly not the norm.
Also, I frequently cache articles by printing to PDFs not knowing a better way of capturing a static snapshot of a web page into a single file. I do not print these, but the resulting PDFs suffer from the same layout issues. Also, links do not get converted. (Several PDF software makers supply plugins for Microsoft Office, but almost none for web browsers.) I am happy to hear if someone has a better solution for this (other than using Internet archiving for such cashing).