Another example of bad web form

I was looking over the CSS Media tag reference, part of CSS3 and implemented less in-depth in CSS2/HTML4. Distinguishing between print media and screen media is available in IE 5 and above, all versions of Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, I think Opera. Why do we still have these funny printer friendly versions for articles on sites such as the New York Times. If the New York Times removed their printer friendly link for one year and instead had a short text box that basically says,

"This page uses standards-compliant web technology to automatically print in a printer friendly version. Supported browsers include IE5 and better, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and others,"

that would be great. Such a thing would stop people like my mother from not seeing the printer friendly link and printing three or four pages to get the one page of content. It just takes better coding, and a knowledge of CSS. As the web evolves, hopefully we will begin to see more tree-friendly sites as well.