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I would like to make a suggestion for a Stack Overflow/Exchange complete Q&A printer-outer.

It would print out the full question, its answers, and its comments, which the normal web-browser print does not do.

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    +1 for asking this question. Much needed feature.
    – sivabudh
    Commented Feb 18, 2010 at 0:48
  • Any update on this?
    – JDelage
    Commented Sep 7, 2010 at 3:44
  • Printing in Firefox is still a disaster. Printing in IE seems to work OK, but I don't want to have to open IE just to print. And that assumes I'm at work where I have IE available -- at home I run linux so IE is not an option.
    – jrw32982
    Commented Oct 28, 2010 at 15:38
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    Just linking stackapps.com/questions/179/…
    – Pandya
    Commented Oct 15, 2016 at 4:29
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    It's kind of weird that it doesn't just work. Is this 1996? :O
    – neuronet
    Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 18:32
  • Really great to see the "status-completed" badge on this. Great work Stack team!
    – Steven
    Commented Jun 20, 2019 at 21:43

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Try stackprinter http://www.stackprinter.com/.

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    Going to modify my original answer - it's a more readily available solution.
    – Steven
    Commented Sep 30, 2011 at 20:41
  • +1 It would be nice if it can print out many questions based on tag - as mention in meta.stackexchange.com/questions/117190/…
    – Anderson Karu
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 4:57
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    Anyway to print in color? It's useful for code highlight
    – NickW
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 22:54
  • @NickW I have added the PrettyPrint js library for the code highlighting
    – systempuntoout
    Commented Jul 15, 2012 at 6:17
  • @systempuntoout Thanks. it works great.
    – NickW
    Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 2:09
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    StackPrinter’s layout isn’t great, and worse, it automatically tries to initiate printing instead of just displaying it with a print-stylesheet, but it’s better than nothing.
    – Synetech
    Commented Sep 29, 2013 at 2:06
  • @Synetech I'm open for suggestion :), for the printing stuff you can pass printer=false on the query string and skip it.
    – systempuntoout
    Commented Oct 10, 2013 at 20:08
  • @systempuntoout, the query term is great, thanks (though that it’s necessary at all is absurd). A nicer stylesheet would be good, and might be implementable as a user-stylesheet in the meantime. I’ll keep an eye out for examples of sites that provide a good print stylesheet, but for now, with the don’t-print query, I’m satisfied (mostly) with StackPrinter (I don’t understand why the print-formatted pages don’t have a link to the original, normal question page).
    – Synetech
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 3:05
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    It doesn't support this site: stats.stackexchange.com
    – Vivodo
    Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 14:08
  • Is there no way to 'print all' questions or answer by a particular user?
    – Iceberry
    Commented Feb 28, 2019 at 6:25
  • It doesn't really work. Answers are missing from the print!
    – IceCold
    Commented Jan 1, 2022 at 11:29
  • @gravity use the print of your navigator
    – Xavier Combelle
    Commented Mar 17, 2022 at 9:29
  • @XavierCombelle if you have anything new to add, add it as a new answer.
    – Luuklag
    Commented Mar 17, 2022 at 10:00
  • @Luuklag Xavier is the author of this answer...
    – Andras Deak -- Слава Україні
    Commented Mar 17, 2022 at 17:09
  • @AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні which still doesn't give them the right to drastically alter it. What did all previous users vote on then?
    – Luuklag
    Commented Mar 17, 2022 at 18:34
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This could be done with the SO static dump framework that I've started to work on. I don't quite have comments rendering yet (I've been busy with other projects), but the rest of the question/answer data is available in a plain format suitable for printing. Adding comments would be pretty straightforward.

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  • Is there a way to follow what you're doing on this? Like a dev report or something?
    – Steven
    Commented Sep 30, 2009 at 16:40
  • The best place is probably over on Github: github.com/ghewgill/so-static Follow that project and you'll be notified of commits or other updates. Along with the obvious code collaboration, there's a wiki and issue tracker and such but I haven't played with the extra features yet. Now is a good chance!
    – Greg Hewgill
    Commented Sep 30, 2009 at 19:08
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This is completed as per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/329187/235711

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Use the print functionality of your favourite web browser? If you are on Windows CTRL+P will work in most cases.

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  • I tried that but it doesn't print comments.
    – Steven
    Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 17:10
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    Right, they are loaded separately. Pity. Smells like a feature request: printer-friendly view.
    – Fredrik Mörk
    Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 17:13
  • Hmm. Where can I make that request?
    – Steven
    Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 17:19
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    Looks like you found out :)
    – Fredrik Mörk
    Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 17:51
  • Thread printer-outer ftw. Thanks guys.
    – Steven
    Commented Sep 21, 2009 at 17:58
  • @StevenWright: As of trying right now, this seems to work fine, at least in Chrome. Comments and everything!
    – adamjford
    Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 21:29
  • Still fails in Firefox 8.0 on Windows. E.g. text runs off the bottom of the page and is missing from the next page.
    – jrw32982
    Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 17:35
  • The browser’s print function would print it as you see it; the question is asking for a print formatted stylesheet.
    – Synetech
    Commented Sep 29, 2013 at 2:05

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