Printer-friendly web pages

[altyfc]

Most designers design websites with specific screen resolutions in mind, but do they also design for printers? ie. so that the pages are print friendly?

I understand that you can make your website more printer friendly with CSS, controlling things like width, background colour, font, etc. CSS has its advantages because you can make just one page with one design, rather than a page and a print-friendly page, but of course it won't work on older browsers. But should web designers even be bothering with making sites printer-friendly, do you think? Afterall, a web site is meant for the web, no? But then there's the other argument that people sometimes prefer to read from a printed version... does it depend on the nature of the site and/or material as to whether it should be printer-friendly?

Aaron

[becki]

I don't think I ever print out pages and I don't know how to design pages with printer friendly versions in mind. What should be considered when I start making web pages?

[Brian Turner]

I have to plead ignorance here as well - I have never even looked into the subject. Any resource links handy?

[altyfc]

I'm not a big fan of About.com but here you go:
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/printerfriendly/

Aaron

[Brian Turner]

Good call - taking notes from about now.

[becki]

That looks even more complicated!
I'll think about it very carefully. I need to know what way I am going to do this before I do.