[justbaker]

> "How is this different/better than taking <random web browser> and hitting "print"

If you have to repeat this process 2000 times, it becomes time consuming. It doesn't scale for a single user needing 2000 pdfs to do the process manually.

[posterboy]

You don't know Headless Browser modes. There are a bunch of scriptable CLIs.

[justbaker]

I do know about headless browsers. The comment above mine mentioned a manual process, no scripts or headless browsers. a combo of Curl, wkhtmltopdf(or other html to pdf) and a for loop can perform this in a bash 1-liner.