Printing only what you like (Format any web page for printing)

I agree, however consider that most people who are smart enough to make a print media css file, still end up with the print version of the web page being a better design even for web browsing than the browser one.

If the print media css file was common, than maybe a browser setting could always show that version whenever it is available.

It would be great if every site offered a printer-friendly view. The web would be so much more usable. But I also believe the ultimate authority on how a page looks and prints should be you. What if company policies force designers to include ink-draining advertisements on the printer-friendly version (cough cnn.com cough)? What if you don't like the font a page uses, or only want to print part of the page, or want to merge multiple pages into one print job? A printer-friendly stylesheet won't do that for you, but PrintWhatYouLike will. I totally agree that PrintWhatYouLike will mostly be used to get around poorly designed sites, but print stylesheets are only part of the solution. The other part of the solutions is giving you the ability to take a designers page and customize it to suit your own unique needs.

yeah, this (currently printwhatyoulike's front page) "This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later." isn't exactly a great advertisement for the service

I don't know about you, but when learning a new topic, I find it easier to print the content I want to read, and highlight it old-skool style with a highlighter. It helps me for reading comprehension, later referencing, and those off line meetings where you want to show something quickly out of your printed notes.

Thanks! This change will appear in the next release.

+1 for Aardvark.

Also some similarities with the Nuke Anything extension.

Both Aardvark and Nuke Anything are super cool tools, and I stole a lot of ideas from them while creating PrintWhatYouLike. But PrintWhatYouLike also adds a whole bunch of new stuff no other service offers. Here are a few of the new features:

* pwyl is a webapp so you don't need to customize or install anything and you aren't tied to any particular browser

* merge pages together - you can combine multiple pages together into one page, and print them as one document. Your changes from the first page are automatically applied to any additional pages.

* pwyl is easy to use - there is a full toolbar, and you can see what you have selected. With Aardvark you have to memorize keyboard commands

* extra features like change text size, font, remove images.