I have a unique question, I think.... a printed catalog ?

A client wants the ability to have customers print out a "catalogue" so to speak of thumbnail images of all his products. I do know if you go to the product listing page, or really any page you can print out. But, I was thinking about how to accomplish this so that only the thumbnails and the name of the products appear on a different product listing page. These are my thoughts about this and please let me know if you all think this is possible.

I was thinking about creating another product listing page called product listing 2 or catalogue with the same type of layout as the new products page or featured products page. Is this possible and do you think it would be difficult to do? Do you know which files I would have to "re-create" other than taking parts from tpl_products_new_default.php and tpl_products_all_default.php and putting them together to create this catalogue?

Any suggestions, comments will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Corinne

you can just modify the priter style sheet that comes w/ zen cart to accomplish this.

Where would I modify it? How would it just print let's say 3 to 4 thumbnails per page of all the product listing page? I want to understand what I am doing.

Thanks,

Corinne

webmiss:

Where would I modify it? How would it just print let's say 3 to 4 thumbnails per page of all the product listing page? I want to understand what I am doing.

Thanks,

Corinne

What I meant to say, (I was writing this very late last night and worded it wrong sorry), I need 3 to 4 thumbnails in each row across the page, not 3 to 4 thumbnails per page. It should look like the Featured or New Products layout in the center box on the home page of the store, when those features are activiated, but actually be a listing of all products using the same type of layout where you have the thumbnail and name of the product underneath. I hope what I wrote makes more sense. I don't see how modifying the print_stylesheet.css would accomplish this.

webmiss:

What I meant to say, (I was writing this very late last night and worded it wrong sorry), I need 3 to 4 thumbnails in each row across the page, not 3 to 4 thumbnails per page. It should look like the Featured or New Products layout in the center box on the home page of the store, when those features are activated, but actually be a listing of all products using the same type of layout where you have the thumbnail and name of the product underneath. I hope what I wrote makes more sense. I don't see how modifying the print_stylesheet.css would accomplish this.
I guess you are going to have to make a print view page, that would be the best option, or you could add code to the top of the tpl_product_listing to re-query the produts w/ a limit on the query if there is a $_GET value of Printing =true.

Sadly, I am not a coder. Man, I wish I was...

If you are talking about creating a separate page with just the info I want, then this page would need to automatically update itself when new products are added. That is what the client wants. As I said I am not a coder. I've got to think about some way to create what he wants...

Your second suggestion....well, I may end up hiring someone here if I can't figure a way to do this....

Thanks,

Corinne

I'm very interested in this as well. An important client would like a printed catalog that he can show to other people. I'm thinking something along the lines of the way Easy Populate and that ebay mod output the products in a format useful for other purposes. I'm thinking of a printed catalog that shows a table of contents (which is directly from the store category listing) and all the items just as they're organized in my online catalog. It would basically just be html output with like 3-6 items per page, printer page breaks (is that possible?) and without the store template stuff around it.

So it's doable, but perhaps there isn't enough demand for this?