Recent versions of the Google Chrome browser introduced a unified print dialog that offers the same design and functionality between the Windows, MacOS, and Chrome OS platforms. This is great if you use Chrome on a number of devices and want to maintain the same look and feel when printing or creating PDFs, but if you’re primarily a Mac user, the Chrome print window clashes with the default MacOS print dialog used by just about every other application.

The good news is that Chrome offers a simple shortcut to select the standard OS X print window.

To use that, use the following shortcuts to select which print window you want to use:

  • Command-P: Chrome Print Window
  • Option-Command-P: OS X Print Window

With this method, you get the best of both worlds, assuming you remember the handy Option-Command-P shortcut keys when initiating a print request.