About Printing Webpages

Why are web pages difficult to print ?

Because web browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer, FireFox etc.) handle text and graphics in a different manner to almost all the other applications you may have on your computer, printing is not as simple and straightforward as you would imagine.

Isn't What You See - What You Get ?

Unfortunately not ! - WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) applies when printing from your word processor and many other applications on your computer. But to present content on a web page in an organised, sensible manner requires formatting that doesn't always work well on a printer.

Can We Fix It ?

Well... probably. We have designed our web pages to be as printer friendly as possible, ignoring all the side menu panels and headers. The printed page is likely to display page sections in an order not exactly matching the screen, but using fonts and formatting better suited to printing. Some illustrations that look good on the screen are excluded from the print to save your expensive ink cartridges.

What Do You Need To Do ?

Make sure that your printer margins aren't too big, which wastes your paper as well as spoiling the layout. We recommend that your top, left and right margins are set to no more than 10mm.

Choose "print preview" from your browser's "file" menu, and see how your web page will look (you can adjust your margins from this screen).

Alternatively, you can select the PDF datasheet from each product page, and be sure that you are seeing the accurate data from our products catalogue.