How to Print Webpage Articles Without Ads from iPhone or iPad, and Safari

How to Print Webpage Articles Without Ads from iPhone or iPad, and Safari

If you like to print out articles from the web via an iPhone or iPad you may appreciate this tip, which allows you to strip down a webpage or any web article so that the primary focus is on the article text content and photos.

Essentially this lets you print out webpage articles without any of the typical web experience, removing all razzle-dazzle, ads, social sharing buttons, styling, widgets, or any of the other elements commonly found on webpages that are helpful on the web web but not particularly useful when printed out on paper.

The end result will be printed out articles from an iPhone or iPad that are stripped of anything other than the article content itself, which makes them more pleasant to read on printed paper and also should reduce ink usage as well.

This particular tutorial is focusing on printing articles from Safari in iOS with an iPhone or iPad, but if youre a Mac user then you may want to . The process is a bit different, but the end result is the same; youre printing out material from the web without any clutter. To try this out youll obviously need an iOS device with an internet connection, and .

This method works to strip down a web page or article in Safari to just focus on the content (text and pictures in the article), which you can then print out as a simplified clutter free version of an article. This process works the same on iPhone and iPad, heres all you need to do: Thats all there is to it, the resulting printed web pages or articles should simply include the article text, and related article images nothing else.

This works because Safari mode strips out webpage data that is not directly related to the core content of the web page in question, and by printing from there rather than the regular webpage view, you can print out a simplified version of the article. By the way, you can also use this trick to save simplified . Modern webpages are fairly complex, and printing them out directly can lead to pages of documents printed out that contain data that is not really helpful once its on paper.

The complexity of modern webpages and articles may be appropriate for the web, but once its printed out most of that styling and splendor results in waste of paper.

Things like social buttons and poll widgets may be fun on the web but are useless when printed out, likewise advertising funds most of the web and allows websites to serve up great content without users paying directly, but printing out a banner ad is rather pointless and will just waste ink, just like printing out any other wildly styled webpage or a bunch of complex design which is unrelated to the core article.

So, save yourself some paper and printer ink, and print out simplified versions stripped of any of the clutter, social buttons, widgets, ads, polls, and other stuff found on the web. And for Mac users, . We mentioned that earlier, but its worth reminding everyone again.

You may already know this, but Reader Mode has a lot of other great uses as well. You can or easier to read, you can use it to .