beamer: Deactivate Overlay Specifications For Printouts

Question

• Sometimes I use overlay specifications in beamer to control the order of appearance of specific elements.
• When I print out the presentation -- which is for my job needed sometimes -- then this generates often too much paper and is inconvenient for the people who get the printout.
• Is there a way/command to deactivate all overlay specifications?
• In article mode there are no overlays I think -- but I do not know how to use this here.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame Title 1}

\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame Title 2}

Text 1 \pause Text 2 \pause Text 3

\end{frame}

\end{document}

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Answer 1

To produce handouts, use the handout mode:

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame Title 1}

\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame Title 2}

Text 1 \pause Text 2 \pause Text 3

\end{frame}

\end{document}