Is there a way to have all of the items collapsed when a page loads rather than having the 1st item "pre-expanded"?

Also, is there a way to expand all of the items at the same time (so the user can print out the whole page full of information)?

Hi. This slider plugin uses the Joomla core mootools accordion and as such does not allow the page to load with all closed or for all to open. These things are of course possible but I haven't yet written a new mootools class to enable these things.

Going through the code for the native Joomla sliders there is an unadvertised option to have all sliders closed on loading the page. I've implemented it on the site here and will release a new version soon. I've also found a lightweight alternative that would allow all open/close with one click.