How to Print a Web Page Without Ads from Mac OS

How to Print a Web Page Without Ads from Mac OS

If you ever print articles from the web, you may be interested in learning how to print a stripped down and more simplified version of articles so that only the article content is printed. This is made easy on a Mac with Safari, where by using a little trick you can print out a webpage article with a focus on the page content exclusively, thereby preventing you from also printing out various other page elements like advertisements, logos, buttons, widgets, polls, social media details, crazy layouts and formatting, and other information that is not particularly worthwhile to print to paper. The end result is a simplified printed article that is focusing only on the article content and article pictures, without any extraneous details or complex layouts; instead youll get just a nice simple and clean article printed out with text and images. Another added bonus to this slimmed down article printing approach is that you can save a bit of printer ink and printer paper too, since unwanted or unnecessary content wont be printed out with the article. This approach to printing out simplified versions of webpages will use Safari Reader mode in Mac OS, it works the same in MacOS or Mac OS X and with any vaguely modern version of Safari as long as it has Reader support. Heres how to print any article from the web in simplified form, focusing just on the text and images within the article itself and stripping away other data: Now what is printed is will be the simplified Reader version of the article or web page, which strips out all content from a web page that is not directly related to the content text and content images. You can also use this same approach to create simplified versions of web pages and articles to from a Mac, which will generate a stripped down content-centric version of the web page or article just the same, except it will be saved as a PDF file instead. Another nice bonus tip to combine with this; you can to make it even more suitable to your preferences before printing. Heres an example of a webpage article printed out as usual from Safari, and the same webpage article printed out from Reader mode (these are just screenshots of PDF files but you get the idea). In a typical article printed out from Safari, youll also be printing out other page data, including layouts, logos, links, ads, sidebar, and other information that just isnt necessary to print out: Compare that to a Reader version of the same article printed out from Safari, where the article has been stripped down into a simplified version with no layouts, logos, ads, links, sidebars, and other data: The Reader version of a printed page in this case ends up using one less page of paper, and it would likely use less ink as well since there is simply less data being printed out. This is a great trick but do keep in mind that most websites are supported by advertisers and run banner ads on webpages to fund their operations, and those efforts are circumvented by Reader mode. But, for printing out articles, it makes perfect sense for wanting to print out a simplified version of a webpage, particularly since it will reduce ink and paper usage. This makes Reader Mode in Safari particularly helpful for printing out articles and web pages, and it works on basically every website youll find on the web that has article type content, whether its news, blogs, tutorials and walkthrough guides, recipes, instructions, or just about anything else in article format. Happy printing!