In fact, I regard print as an art form by itself, much like web design.

The thing that pisses me off is that when print designers take for granted that "creating a website" is simply just another 72dpi print job.

Well, it's not! The fact that your "website is in a 300dpi Ai file with pixel perfect kerning"  does not make it a perfect piece of artwork on the monitor screen. Don't get me started on the kerning issues. I find it ridiculous to have to succumb to displaying 9 pixel fonts on the screen just so that it balances and resize proportionately with every other elements in the site.

What ever happened to usability and readability?

No offense intended to you print designers out there but please let us web designers put our expertise to good use in the medium that we are familiar in. Deal with your printers, let us deal with our firebugs......