In this posting from Maratz.com (the weblog of Marco Dugonjic), he shares his method for creating a printer-friendly page with a little PHP, CSS, and HTML.

Providing separate stylesheets for printing a web page was good idea in theory, but in practice it all falls down. Let's see if we can do something about it. If we could involve server-side script (there's solution for both - PHP and ASP based systems *wink, wink*) which will reload that particular page, but replace regular CSS file with stylesheet specially suitable for printing an article, entry, post or whatever-you-wanna-call-it, this would make a hudge step forward towards better usability of our web site.

Oh, and yes, Google will just love it!

The information presented is short and simple enough - basically using two different style-sheets to create a different version of the page. If you've done your layout right and have relied more on CSS than on font tags in your HTML, then this method will work wonders for you and your data...