Quoting Rowan Collins, from the post of Tue, 14 Sep:
I thought that was called the "classic" skin. Am I wrong?
The Classic skin, I believe, had/has a link to a special "Print Version" of each article. The MonoBook skin, by using CSS, simply tells the browser to print the page differently than it displays it. This is of course rather more "magic" than most users expect...
indeed, people expect it to render correctly as they see it on the screen. People also expect it to at least render inteligably, but if you try this on a Hebrew Wiki (and I suppose Farsi and Arabic will not be different) you get your text left-justified and with many overlapping characters here and there. not a pretty sight.
I like the "print magic" idea, but is it possible to have a setting to disable it?