As astounding an omission as it is after 8 generations of browsers, AFIK there is no way to shrink printed Web pages to fit the width of the displayed page in IE8. You can have the browser cook breakfast for you and take out the trash, but this simple task seems to be beyond its capabilities even after the billions invested in development.

It's not like this is something minor after all. It's about as obscure as the bug that ate Tokyo. But apparently still not obvious enough for MS to notice in the over 15 years they had to catch it since version 1. (pardon my rant)

There used to be a program called PrintPunk that would apparently do the job. But it looks like that is defunct and doesn't support the latest OSs and IE version. Plus you have to buy it.

Does anyone know an elegant solution to get around this?