Save your eyes by printing text

Greetings, reporters! This one is kind of off topic, since it’s not necessarily a reporting tool. I often print out articles for editing (apologies to the trees, I do try to use recycled paper), and find that images take up way too much space and printer ink.

I found a browser add-on called Print Edit WE that helps. It finds and deletes elements on a webpage before you print it out.

I use it to get rid of cover images, photos, embeds, footers, sidebars, you name it. Anything I don’t really need to read, or takes up way too much of my precious, expensive color ink.

The Print Edit WE extension is, to be honest, a little over-engineered. It can also insert text, reformat margins and target HTML elements, which seems kind of over the top. So the interface is consequently a little hard to use.

But still, it does the job and makes me feel a lot less wasteful. Preserve your eyes with some printed paper, reporters!

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