I know it is a balancing act. I try to keep my EBooks to a certain size so printing is not horrendous. Tutorials are a bit more lax for me because you don't have to print them off. Save them to a flash drive or other storage device and don't print them off. Then you can put them in and follow along when you need the file.
I have discovered I need to show each and every step and all the tricks and tips. So many pictures are unavoidable.
Also when putting a tutorial on here I don't have any sense of pages because this site doesn't work like a Word document or my Works documents. I don't get any lines to show where pages start and stop.