Answers.Body: <p>If you use Drupal, I'd recommend setting up a view that lays out the bits you want for your print-friendly data screen, and then use the Drupal print module to give you the print-friendly and/or pdf-generated versions.</p>
  
  <p>The print module can actually generate both print-friendly and pdf-generated versions of any page (via a url trick, prefix with "print/"), i.e. you can use a url like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/print/civicrm/contact/view?reset=1&amp;cid=yourcontactid
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but they probably won't look very nice. You can do some customziations via the print.css file of your theme.</p>
  
  <p>It's probably harder than you think, less useful, and not a good idea most of the time as noted in the comments above.</p>
  
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Body: <p>What is the best way to setup a custom printer friendly link on each contact record? i would like to have a print button on the top of each contact record that would allow someone to view a better looking pdf version of the information on a contact record. </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hi - you might need to clarify what counts as "the information on a contact record', eg do you mean 'only data that shows on the Summary screen', or 'including all Memberships and Events etc' or 'only Summary data plus contact custom fields'. etc
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Comments.Text: What's the use case for this?  Pdf's encourage people to print or save data outside of Civi which often is a bad thing.  FYI the default print icon on Civi pages is removed in 5.20
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Comments.Text: @petednz-fuzion Just the summary information.
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Comments.Text: @Aidan they dont print often but when they do it looks really bad so im thinking the drupal view route is good enough to try.
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Comments.Text: I would def. go Views approach
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Comments.Text: "FYI the default print icon on Civi pages is removed in 5.20"
  
  So is there a way to get something similar, or do you have to go the Views route?
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Tags: <contacts><printing>
Title: Printer Friendly Contact Record
ThreadText: # Printer Friendly Contact Record
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-05)
  
  What is the best way to setup a custom printer friendly link on each contact record? i would like to have a print button on the top of each contact record that would allow someone to view a better looking pdf version of the information on a contact record.
  
  **Tags:** contacts, printing
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hi - you might need to clarify what counts as "the information on a contact record', eg do you mean 'only data that shows on the Summary screen', or 'including all Memberships and Events etc' or 'only Summary data plus contact custom fields'. etc  
  > **username_2**: What's the use case for this?  Pdf's encourage people to print or save data outside of Civi which often is a bad thing.  FYI the default print icon on Civi pages is removed in 5.20  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 Just the summary information.  
  > **username_0**: @username_2 they dont print often but when they do it looks really bad so im thinking the drupal view route is good enough to try.  
  > **username_1**: I would def. go Views approach  
  > **username_3**: "FYI the default print icon on Civi pages is removed in 5.20"  So is there a way to get something similar, or do you have to go the Views route?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2019-12-06. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  If you use Drupal, I'd recommend setting up a view that lays out the bits you want for your print-friendly data screen, and then use the Drupal print module to give you the print-friendly and/or pdf-generated versions.
  
  The print module can actually generate both print-friendly and pdf-generated versions of any page (via a url trick, prefix with "print/"), i.e. you can use a url like this:
  
  ```
  /print/civicrm/contact/view?reset=1&cid=yourcontactid
  
  ```
  
  but they probably won't look very nice. You can do some customziations via the print.css file of your theme.
  
  It's probably harder than you think, less useful, and not a good idea most of the time as noted in the comments above.
  
  
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