Safe width in pixels for printing web pages?

Question

What is the safe width in pixels to print a web page?

My page includes large images and I want to make sure they will not be cut of when printed.

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Answer 1

For printing I don't set any width and remove any obstacles which keep your print layout from having a dynamic width. Meaning if you make your browser window smaller and smaller, no content is cut/hidden but the document just gets longer. Like this, you can be sure that the rest will be handled by the printer/pdf-creator.

What about elements with a fixed width such as images or tables?

Images

Options I can think of:

• scale images down in your print CSS to a width which you can assume will fit in any case, use pt not px (but print will need more points/unit anyways, so this should hardly be a problem)
• exclude from being printed

Tables

• remove the fixed width
• use landscape if you really have tables with loads of information
• don't use tables for layout purposes
• exclude from being printed
• extract content, print it as paragraphs

http://www.intensivstation.ch/en/css/print/

or any other google result for combinations of: CSS, print, media, layout