Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Printing

General Tasks

Better print preview
Print cropping
Custom margins (ideally adjustable in print preview)
User-controllable print scaling
Fully editable document within print preview utilizing simple text editor
Print documents last-page to first-page for printers that stack face up
Printing-related web standards support, e.g., page-break-after
Automatic resize-to-fit-on-paper (like febooti ieZoom or IE7 can do) and/or resize to x * y sheets of paper (like MS Excel)
Print multiple pages (for sites that only print first page - see bug in references - requires reflow work to land).
Add a print-preview toolbar icon.
Add "Print" to context menu for page

Ability to set printing options (portrait/landscape, zoom, &c) so that they always return to the same desired settings each time the browser is closed (or each time it's started), rather than staying on the last-used setting.
Multiple saved settings
Option to overwrite CSS print styles with your own print-styles. Quick edit mode for headline, p, ul, li-Tags or choose from a list of preset skins.

Print selected without requiring add-ons
"Print image" and "Print page" in context menu
Add Tab-related "Print Range" options to the Print Dialog, along the lines of "Print Active Tab" and "Print Selected Tabs". Requires ability to select multiple open tabs at once

Duplex printing (printing on both sides of the paper)
N-Up printing (multiple pages on the same sheet)
Get available paper sizes from the printing backend (e.g. CUPS), don't inflict Letter + inch margins on everyone
Support PAPI
Autodetect printers when printing through lpr and lp
Integrate printing with the desktop environment
- Printing in KDE, for instance, does not integrate with the KDE print system. It would be nice to have some of KDE's virtual printers available in Firefox, such as the pdf and postscript file creation print drivers.
- You can print with kprinter in Firefox (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205050) Firefox should have the mechanisms for this built-in though. (Maybe someone should write a simple extension that takes care of this.) --Micahgeek 07:41, 25 October 2006 (PDT)

Ability to print a "summary sheet" before/after main printout showing things like number of pages printed, full url for page printed, nicely formatted list of full URL's contained within the doc being printed, date+time, version of FF etc. (Idea inspired by fact that url printing in FF is flaky at best, and can be truncated).

Don't know if it's fixed in the 2.0 version but when you print an article in Wikipedia that content a long url, FF don't cut it as in Ie or Opera. The result is non acurated.

Should have the ability to choose to use the print CSS.
Should handle better the CSS print media-type.
Should allow the preview of CSS, showing the results like an Word document (each paper with his contents).

--Alenonimo 15:57, 27 October 2006 (PDT)