Easy Print Styles

Exploding Boy Chris Ware has a great little tutorial on creating print stylesheets. Some of the tips I had not even given thought to yet, like setting HTML to 100%.

Great tips Chris.

High-Resolution Images From The Web

We have been talking in the office recently about ways to deliver compressed images to a website for fast downloading, while at the same time offering a higher-resolution version for when those pages are printed. This would be applied to situations where you are including diagrams or floor plans in a webpage.

Of course, I had completely missed this article over at ALA dealing with the same issue.

The general gist of what is said in the article:

While we can create images for use on screen, we can also create larger images and force their size down (and their dpi up) for use by printers. We can make hi-res logos and headings, 300dpi photos, and even images specifically needed for printed pages—and serve up these print-specific images using print-media CSS.

Some very interesting stuff in here.