Inklings: a tumblelog

The Importance of Printability

Hallelujah! As someone who hates reading articles off the screen with a passion and likes to print things off, if only to save my eyes, there’s nothing I hate more that when sites don’t use print-friendly stylesheets. Or worse: when the printable version is paged! Surely when Jakob Nielsen admonished use all that users don’t like to scroll, surely the point was really that you should make them have to read as little as possible rather than having them scroll or page through a bunch of bloated writing. And if there’s one thing I hate more than sites without print-friendly stylesheets, it’s sites that make me page through articles if I want to print them off!