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Gift card printing — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:12:42 -0000

Yes you are right in your opinion.

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Shopping Cart — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:57:16 -0000

Your blog is informative.

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PVC card printing — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:52:33 -0000

I think it will reduce paper waste and we can also print blog from front end.

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Wesley — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:55:30 -0000

Updated - Renders like a work of art now, very nice!

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lee sing — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:52:20 -0000

This is great, but there is a communication problem here. The eco safe site says it provides printing alternatives. Well, thats much different than the debate about css standards and the like.

By the way it looks to be updated with better rendering capabilities. I looked at both Fred's blog and Chris's blog and they look much better than they did. Maybe it was the old machine I was using. Cheers

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Paul — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:26:52 -0000

"If you want there to be more trees in the world, use more paper."

Let's ban books, and newspapers, and cardboard. Haranguing people to not print an email is a only great way to feel superior without actually having an impact. Let's ban 'smug' instead.

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loupaglia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:18:39 -0000

I tend to agree Antonio. I do like that you can export a post to PDF for storing locally, sure beats downloading all the HTML and related images to have the page sit offline (if you aren't using Google Reader and Gears). But for printing, I tested the app on a couple of posts and there was no discernible benefit if your goal was to in fact get the blog to a piece of paper, say to hand out in a meeting. This post we are in came out to be six pages, just as if I can printed it directly from the browser.

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Chris Brogan... — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:27:33 -0000

Excellent product, Fred. Thanks for pointing it out. I just swiped a copy for [chrisbrogan.com], so I can offer the same service. I appreciate your sharing it with us, and welcome back.

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greenskeptic — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:30:20 -0000

Thanks, Fred. I added the widget on The Green Skeptic and will try it out.

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Nate — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:45 -0000

Hey if the eco badge is the easiest solution for someone, great. I just wanted to point out a method that 1) doesn't require yet another sidebar flash widget, 2) doesn't require a PDF download, 3) doesn't ask for users' email addresses, and 4) isn't free advertising for a site that frankly looks sketchy.

BTW: The PDF generated by that widget actually uses MORE paper than Fred's current suboptimal print CSS because the PDF shows all the sidebar stuff that you don't need in a printout.

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Wesley — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:38 -0000

I heard Al Gore started this?

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lee sing — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:36:45 -0000

This is really cool, thanks for sharing

We can talk endlessly about css and overkilling this and that but at the end of the day who else is distilling down tech in a way that anyone with a blog or website can use? Delivering it to them? Helping them?

Why use Kiva? You have a bank account and phone line - access to air travel, so why use Kiva? Same underlining principles.

This is the first time I've seen this type of web 2.0 technology used in a (measurable) way that can change the world.

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Nate — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:54:10 -0000

Hmm, the ECO-SAFE merit badge is serious overkill, as is the HP Tabblo solution.

Using separate Cascading Style Sheets for screen display and printing fixes the problem seamlessly for readers. CSS is free, standard, and supported. No badges, emailing, or PDFs required.

Let me know if you need a little CSS consulting :)

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Tony_Alva — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:59:41 -0000

COOL! I've added it to Intrvenus De Milo...

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Antonio — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:01:02 -0000

Fred,

That widget doesn't print any better than the standard page— paper and ink being wasted left and right. Plus, the experience doesn't look a whole lot better than the original "for the web" content.

After HP bought us, we looked at this problem from exactly this perspective— make is less wasteful— and then decided to add convenience and esthetics to it as well. Go check out what we're doing for TechCrunch for a good example of the former, or see what the print button does to my blog to see an example of the esthetics.

Now granted, we seem to have caught the big company disease of being poor at communicating this to the rest of the world, but you can get started here with either approach.

Waste from printing is a huge deal which is not lost of folks at HP.

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lazerow — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:40:04 -0000

This would work really well as a browser plug in.

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Doug — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:52:26 -0000

Ahhh, the irony..... Bloglines served an ad for Kinko's under this post :-)