188896 - Printing several webpages causes awful waste of paper

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155396

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jan Van Looy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

When printed, webpages have the annoying habit to always take one page and a
quarter. There must be a way to use paper more economically and ecologically,
especially in a time when articles are often divided into several pages for
commercial reasons.
One clean possibility seems to me that the user can drag several pages to a
'container icon', e.g. the print icon, which can then be printed at once without
too much whitespace.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. print several webpages
2. behold how much paper is used

Actual Results:  
Mozilla starts a new page for each webpage being printed.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have continued printing on the same sheet.

Comment 1

[Jan Van Looy]

ok, forget about the container.

it would be wonderful if we could do a "print all tabs" (bug #155396) without
any waste of paper.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

If this is now just in implementation detail for bug 155396 then it's a dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155396 ***