Web Site Help

Printing Pages

If you've already tried to print a page from the CLA web site, you will have noticed that the printout doesn't look the same as the page on your screen. This is on purpose: printers are being sent a different set of rules for what to display and how to display it. The information is all the same for both formats. It's just being presented differently:

Illustration of the difference between screen and printed pages

Why? Because there is a lot of extraneous "overhead" on a web site that you don't need on paper: menus, the gold color on the sides, search boxes, and other things like that just take up space and ink when you print them.

Additionally, if you use the "Printable view" feature at the top of every page, rather than printing the page directly from your browser, the printed page will also provide the full web address for any links on the page. Every "click here" will get a numbered reference, where the full URL for that link is written at the bottom of the page, giving you extra information about the link when it's on paper and there's nothing for you to click. This feature only works from the "Printable view" button on the site; if you print without it (e.g. File > Print) then the URL references will not be added as footnotes.



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