Sorry, I just realized that "Simplify Page" is only available on windows, which is weird.

Most of the mess comes from the upper left navigation pane, since browsers are trying to expand some links to the underlying URL in the print.

Since the links are often very long and not easily broken into another line, they are overlaying the actual POD.

this is caused by this CSS setting

@media print {
// ...
  a[href]:after {
    content: " (" attr(href) ")";
  }
//..

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As already said changing the media CSS (like hiding navigation) would solve your issues either locally by amending Firefox settings or by providing a patch here

https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues

edit

especially https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues/1786

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^2: printing metacpan by LanX
in thread printing metacpan by lee_crites

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