Well I’ve done something about it (well at least on my blog) – I’ve changed my theme so that on browsers that supports css and media types the sidebar shouldn’t print out. Here’s how you can add this to you’re WordPress blog

1. Create a file print-style.css in the directory for you’re current theme with the following content
   .dontprint{ display: none; }
div#menu{ display: none; }
2. In wordpress, goto Presentation, Theme Editor and select the file Header
3. Just bellow the line setting the css style sheet – should be something like this :
   <style type="text/css" media="screen">
@import url( %lt;?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
<style>

   add the lines
   <style type="text/css" media="print">
@import url(<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/style-print.css);
</style>
4. Hopefully this should be enough, but if the theme author hasn’t used the div’s in the sidebar file you may have to add this line <div id="menu"> to the top of the file and this line </div> to the bottom of the file

1) Bad Layout sites where if you press print you end up using about 4 pages worth of paper for 1 page worth on content. – Tip for you use a css style sheet to hide all the crap from the printing – or make a separate print option like many sites do these days

2) Multiple page articles. Can I really cope with reading 30 odd pages worth of text on screen without my eyes giving up on me? Probably not. Can I print it out? Nope – they haven’t made a special print page, so I have to slowly read through the article, usually getting bored of the skipping else where every page etc and don’t end up reading it all.