English
printer-friendly
From printer + friendly.
A compound of printer + friendly
Proto-Germanic *frijōndz ‘friend’
Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz ‘friendlike’
Proto-West Germanic *frijōndlīk
Old English frēondlīċ ‘friendly’
Middle English frendly
English friendly
Today it means
adj Of a document or layout, suitable for printing, without any extraneous formatting, images, etc.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “printer-friendly”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / printer-friendly