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There are no obnoxious ads on the site (no ads at all that I saw). There is no obnoxious Flash or scripts. No weird color schemes. No animations. Nothing objectionable at all that I could see, even to the most sensitive person.

So why did the submitter link to the print page, which for many of us will bring up a print dialog that we then have to dismiss, instead of linking to the main article page?

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The normal page is here: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/stay-up-late

Well one advantage the print view has is that it's at least centered, whereas the normal view is off to the left. Though this only makes a difference on higher resolution screens and it isn't enough of an issue to outweigh everyone having to dismiss a print dialog / deny ad impressions, in my opinion.

On the contrary, the print view has longer lines, which makes it harder to read on a widescreen display.

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