Why can't I print this article without it coming out looking like crap??

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Kroze

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Here's what I wanted to print....


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Here's how it looks when I print or print preview it. I've tried screwing around with the scaling and page orientation but to no avail. What am I doing wrong here?

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Kev

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The page probably has

Code:
media="screen"

in the call to the css file
 

Theb

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Is there a link on the article for a printer friendly version?
 

Basilisk6

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I didn't see an obvious way to do it in Internet Explorer, but these are the options I can see:

1. If you don't need the menus and ads, you could always just highlight and paste the article to a Word processor. It looks fine in Word.
2. If you want the printout to look exactly like the page, and have access to a Chrome browser, you can do Ctrl+A, right click > Print. Under options, select "Selection Only" and "Background Colors and Images". The result I see looks exactly like the page.
 

xanis

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Someone probably got lazy and nixed the print stylesheet, so it got half-assed. I made some changes with Stylebot and it looks pretty decent now:

wvDKSSD.png


CSS changes are as follows:
Code:
#topnav, 
#nav, 
#sidebar, 
#footer, 
.social4i, 
.betterrelated, 
img { 
  display: none; 
}
 

Ichinisan

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I usually delete superfluous DOM elements using Chrome's "inspect element" feature before I print anything.

...carefully moving up through hierarchy of container elements to delete entire sections and free-up the space they occupy.
 
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