printing. why not just the thread?

[drewskiSF]

on top of a thread are a couple of buttons. Save to Profile, Email, Print, Share.

why when you select print does it not just print the thread? i found a thread that had 2 nice recipes and 2 really short posts.

i hit print and got 8 pages including headers, footers, links, sidebar pictures (Most Popular, etc).

2 pages of the thread with recipes and 6 wasted pages of useless paper wasting printout. this button seems no better than selecting the Print option in your browser

[HillJ]

The setup for printing has always been like that and many of us mentioned it. Best advice I can offer is to use a common cut & paste function into an open file on your desktop, print it off and save or delete the file. Not ideal but better than wasted paper & ink.

[Servorg]

If you are on a PC can't you highlight the portion of the thread you want and then print "selection" to avoid getting all that extraneous stuff?

[drewskiSF]

that would work & will be done in the future (or the other suggestion of cut/paste into another file).

it doesn't answer my question on why the button does not function in a logical manner.

like in my Web based email browser, if i hit the "print" button for a particular email that is open, it is just that email that prints, not the header, any banner ads, a list of my folders on the left, etc.

Chow might as well eliminate the button because it serves no useful purpose. i can hit Ctrl-P faster than scrolling to the top of the page and hitting that button with my mouse.

[Jacquilynne]

I opened a problem ticket with our Engineering Team. Our print template was fixed for awhile, but seems to be broken again, unfortunately.

-- Jacquilynne, Community Manager for Chowhound

[drewskiSF]

thanks, Jacquilynne!

[HillJ]

Nope. I still wind up with extra blank pages.