Make your website printable - a short guide

Have you ever printed a web page or thought about how your website looks like if someone were to print it? Let this short guide provide you a starting point on your journey to make the reader’s experience better if they decide to print your page. Why should you make your web page printable? There are a lot of different reasons why someone would print a website in 2026. First is to read a longer piece in a better format. Reading from paper is generally better for your eyes than staring a screen. I don’t do it often but every now and then, when someone writes a post that really makes me think, I prefer to print it out, take my highlighter and pen and curl up in a nice comfy chair or sofa and read it, highlight passages and make notes to the margins. Second is to print information as a backup in case your devices run out of battery or your internet goes down while you’re on an adventure. Hotel and travel reservations, maps with directions, addresses, phone numbers — heck, even a…