New kinds of social sharing awesome: share an email by pinning it or content from the email to Pinterest from the email!
Pinterest is a new social sharing site on which users collect photos and images from around the web and then share them on themed and curated boards. Pinterest has grown exponentially as a social sharing destination on line, and is now the 3rd most popular social network in the U.S. in terms of traffic, with 10.4 million users as of February 2012. It’s usage has especially grown among the demographics that shop online. A 2012 study by Wayfair (www.wayfair.com) showed that shoppers referred by Pinterest are 10% more likely to make a purchase and spend 10% more on average than visitors who arrive from other social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Even more impressively, they spend 70% more than visitors referred from non-social channels such as search.

It is definitely worth looking at how Pinterest can be integrated with emails, and leveraged to support email marketing campaigns.

One way to promote social sharing for a brand is to offer the option to follow the brand on Pinterest along with the brand’s other social network presences, including sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and/or the brand’s blog, and to share the entire email either by forwarding or by sharing a link to the web version on twitter or facebook.

A brand can also offer subscribers the opportunity to share the email or its content by Pinning it onto their own Pinterest boards.
With this option, marketers can specify the image being shared, what url that Pinterest will link back to (for example, a landing page, or the product page on a brand’s website) and a suggested description or Call to Action for the image being pinned . This is relevant, as A call-to-action pin description can generate an 80% increase in engagement.
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Some tutorials and articles:

Boxes and Arrows
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/printing_the_web

Tutorial: Printing using JavaScript
http://nice-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/05/print-using-javascript.html

StackOverflow on printing using JavaScript and dojo
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/764978/print-using-javascript
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2396027/dojo-dijit-and-printing

Eric Meyers on A List Apart (old article but still has relevance)
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/