{ Ctrl + P }

Thanks, now I feel stupid, I knew that! Not been using shortcuts for ages!! But the average user doesn't have these shortcuts in their head, I really think there should be a print option in the context menu for usability.

Developers, what do you think?

That's a standard keyboard on Windows & Linux, I can't recall ever having a program installed, other than a PDF reader, that work with { Ctrl + P } for initiating printing.

There are a few different extension that add a context menu item for Print, and some add Print Preview & Page Setup to the context menu.

I am still thinking of the average user. I am developing a web site used by plumbers, half of them are challenged by using the browser normally. For them to start looking for extensions is almost expecting to much! I was just thinking it can't be to much work to incorperate the Print function as standard in the context menu, even IE has that (Help, I just said something good about IE!) Thanks for your input!

Firefox has existed for 9 years without a context menu item for "print" and it became the 2nd most widely used web browser without having a context menu item for "print" - so the 400+ million users must have figured out how to get around that short coming or they're not printing anything or much a all. Or they are "customizing" their toolbars and using the "Print" button from the Palette (which AFAIK, IE has always displayed on a toolbar). I don't know if a Bug has been filed or not with a request for enhancement to add that as a context menu item, but without a Bug report it probably wouldn't even be considered.

Doesn't the Titlebar with the orange Firefox button appear in the new window? There's a "Print" menu item there.

Do you have to have a new window open with the printer-ready version?
Many websites just open that version in the same tab / window.

Or, just not block the toolbars from showing in the new window.

Or, you could put a "print" button on your printer-ready pages using JavaScript, if that is possible using Joomla. Or even trigger the printer with the link used to open the printer-ready view, although I hate when webpages do that - I like being able to do a Print Preview before committing to print anything.

I use a large corporate intranet (a world-wide retail merchandising services company that has no offices for their merchandisers, we work from our homes using our own PC's for getting job assignments and submitting our reports) that opens a new window for every damn thing we open, and they have a Print button for anything that might or does need to be printed. Some stuff is for our own use for job documentation while we're doing the job and we subsequently complete an online form upon completion of our work for that customer, while other forms need a signature and need to be faxed in to corporate headquarters in each country or region. That button is necessary because the "printer-ready" pages are in a frame of the each work assignment and without that button the wrong frame would be printed - the "focus" would still be on the menu in the left frame which the report was selected from. Without clicking in the correct frame, the menu would be printed not the report, if the user used the web browser's print "command".

Thanks for your extensive reply. You have pointed out a good many solutions to this and I guess the way to go is to find out where Joomla serves the page from and stop it hiding the menu bar, I agree also that print preview is a must.

I have also been a firm supporter of Firefox since it came onto the market and update to the new version as soon as possible, it is an excellent piece of work. My thanks to all the developers!!

You're welcome.