Printing a webpages with a big background image

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Printing a webpages with a big background image

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JerryOdom

4:14 pm on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

I've a website I'm working on and the client wants to print the page. Whoever designed the website used a large background image as the "layout" with the content falling squarely into the middle clear section. Yeah it works but you can't easily print the whole page "including the background".

You print preview with IE or Firefox and the image just isn't there.

SilverLining

4:21 pm on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

You could replace the existing background-image with a smaller background-image in print.css or just play around with the width's of the divs when printed.

JerryOdom

5:37 pm on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi and thanks for your suggestion. It wasn't really an option for this situation.

However I did find an answer. In the advanced options of your browser you can "Enable background images in printing". It's disabled by default. Don't know why? :(

tbear

6:20 pm on Feb 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

Probably because it can use a lot of printer ink, take a longer time to print and sometimes obscure the information you want printed ;)