Hi, is there a feature I'm missing ... or is IPB perhaps missing a feature? 
For my articles content I would very much like people to be able to print out a clean page of the article text, without the surrounding framework of IPB. Is there a way to enable this option? Thanks. 

There is no built-in option for that. It would need some custom CSS to hide the elements you don’t want when printed. 

Ok - thanks. That's a real pity. This would be a super useful feature.