Printout of CSS pages

Hi all...

To those who offered advice on my CSS query the other week... many thanks!!

I've re-worked an existing site to take advantage of CSS. It looks 
much better and translates well across platforms and browsers. But... 
my client cannot print out pages anymore!

What I have done is set up a single style sheet (embassy_styles.css) 
and included a link in the head of each page as follows:

<.link rel=StyleSheet href="../embassy_styles.css" type="text/css" 
media="screen">

I'm a Netscape (nutscrape   :  ]  ) fan anyway... in fact I only put 
up with Internet Exploiter due to M$'s continuing plans for 
domination of the Internet (but I won't even go there now...). I've 
read that it's necessary to include the media statement "screen" to 
enable Netscape to render pages using an external stylesheet. Have 
tested the page on my own system with the following results:

1. Wrote a postscript file out of Netscape and ripped it using 
Acrobat. Could open, read and print from Acrobat Reader

2. Opened page in IE4.5 browser (Mac) and printed. Some of the fonts 
were dropped (substituted for a system font) but the page did print.

3. Opended page in Netscape (Communicator 4.7) and printed 
('foreground' mode for Mac). The dialog box immediately disappeared 
and there was a flurry of disk activity. After about 5 minutes the 
page eventually emerged (intact but with reduced font sizes). I 
realise that nowadays a (comparatively) small population of Netizens 
use Netscape -- however my client is amongst that minority.

Can someone out there give me an insight as to what is happening and 
what I can do about it? Come to think of it there are a number of 
occasions when I have found that the only way ensure that you do get 
some sort of printout from web pages when browsing in Netscape is to 
go the Postscript route, which is a pain...

T.I.A.

MIKE

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