I totally forgot about print style sheets

A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing.

Manuel Matuzovic
UX Collective
1 min readNov 15, 2016

Aaron Gustafson recently sent a tweet to Indiegogo in which he pointed out that their order details pages aren’t usable when printed.

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Written by Manuel Matuzovic

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Responses (13)

What are your thoughts?

While people definitely still print stuff, another good reason you might want to optimize print stylesheets is that it’s a handy way for an end-user to turn your page into a PDF. Think of order summaries, tickets, or your online CV and portfolio…

Optimizing web pages for print is important because we want our sites to be as accessible as possible, no matter the medium. We shouldn’t make assumptions about our users and their beha...

Print css are not just for print. It allows people to save pages as pdf for offline reading.