If you often print articles from the internet, you probably have noticed that most of the webpages include multiple ads, and it’s hard to print webpages without ads.
If you need to print articles only with the content, you need to either manually copy and paste the webpage into a word processor, remove ads, and then print the page. However, this manual method is not ideal when you need to print a large number of web pages.
NOTE: With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803), Microsoft introduced a feature called Clutter-free printing in the Edge browser to print web pages without ads. Sadly, Microsoft has discontinued the legacy Edge browser, and the feature is missing in the new Chromium-based Edge browser. While printing a webpage open in Edge browser, if you select the clutter-free printing option, it automatically removed all ads as well as other not-so-important links from the sidebar of the webpage to make only the content visible on the webpage.
Although the Clutter-free printing feature is not avaiable in the new Chromium-based Edge browser present in Windows 10 and Windows 11, there are other ways to print a webpage without ads. We can use the Edge’s Immersive Reader Mode feature and Print Friendly to print webpages without ads.
Method 1 of 3
Print articles from webpages without ads using Edge in Windows 10/11
Here is how to use the reading view feature in the Edge browser to print webpages without ads in Windows 10/11.
Step 1: In the Edge browser, load the webpage that you want to print without ads, and then click the reading view icon (refer to the picture below) or the F9 key to open the webpage in the immersive reading mode.
Step 2: You should now see the webpage in reading view. Simultaneously press Ctrl and P (Ctrl + P) keys to open the print dialog. Click the Print button to print the webpage without ads. To exit the reading mode, press the F9 key again or click on the reading mode icon.
Method 2 of 3
Use Print Friendly to print webpages without ads in Windows 10/11
Print Friendly is a free web service designed to help PC users print webpages without ads.
To use this service, visit the Print Friendly website in any web browser, copy and paste the URL that you want to print, click the Preview button to load the webpage without ads, open the Print dialog using Ctrl + P hotkey, and then click the Print button.
If you like the Print Friendly service, get its extension for your browser. The print-friendly extension is available for Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers.
Method 3 of 3
Print webpage without ads in legacy Edge in Windows 10
NOTE: This method is applicable only to the legacy version of Edge browser, which is no longer available. The all-new Edge browser does not come with this Clutter-free printing option.
Step 1: In the Edge browser, open the webpage that you want to print without ads.
Step 2: Press the Ctrl and P keys to bring up the Print dialog. In the Clutter-free printing section, select the On option to load the webpage again (you can see in the preview section) without ads and other distractions, and then click the Print button to print the webpage without ads.
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