Question: In last quarter’s issue you described a program that helps eliminate paper waste from printing pages off the web. Is there a similar program that allows you to take sections from different websites and put them all onto one page for printing? I often find a paragraph or two of information from a website and instead of printing the entire page would like to just print and/or save the paragraphs that I’m interested in.

Answer: Just recently the Program Coordinator for the Master’s program, Leigh Graves Wolf, passed along a great new tool created by Hewlett Packard. It is a free Internet application that you download and use right in your browser. According to HP, “HP Smart Web Printing lets you select, store and organize text and graphics from multiple web pages and then edit and print exactly what you see onscreen. It gives you the control you need to print meaningful information while minimizing waste.”

The other great feature of this tool is that you can clip information from many different websites and store them all in one document and save it as a PDF file that you can send to your friends or colleagues.

One drawback that I found is that it only works with web pages and not on PDF files. I even tried using the View PDF as HTML feature in Firefox to see if I might be able to use this tool to clip information from the PDF file but it didn’t work.

Visit HP Smart Web Printing to watch a video demonstration on how the tool works and to get your free download.

If you end up using this tool we would love to hear about it. Leave a comment below to tell us about your experience.

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