I am experiencing the same issue on Chrome Enterprise Version 60.0.3112.113. 

@2, could you please star the bug if you haven't already? Thanks!

Q1. Do we want to do this for PDFs or just webpages?

Q2. We would only do this when the print setting is "all pages", right? Otherwise, if the page range is explicitly set to 1-4, one would expect 4 pages to come out, even if page 4 is blank.

To print webpages, renderers first have to figure out how many pages of paper a webpage renders to. Then it renders each individual page. For this to work, it would have to:

- Render the last page first. (Need to check if that is possible)
- Detect if the page is blank. (A bit more work)
- Adjust the page count. (Because more work has to be done, this will slow down print preview generation slightly.)

This issue has been Available for over a year. If it's no longer important or seems unlikely to be fixed, please consider closing it out. If it is important, please re-triage the issue.

Sorry for the inconvenience if the bug really should have been left as Available.

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Maybe we can do this if we ever try adding a "simply printing" feature. (again)