diff --git a/bin/paged b/bin/paged
index 153add217773d7ca2a8f53bbc16062ee61a36aef..cd81407f4037de78480e3e28ac6e447271b460a7 100755
--- a/bin/paged
+++ b/bin/paged
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ program
   .option("-s, --page-size [size]", "Print to Page Size [size]")
   .option("-w, --width [size]", "Print to Page Width [width] in MM")
   .option("-h --height [size]", "Print to Page Height [weight] in MM")
+  .option("--forceTransparentBackground", "Print with transparent background")
   // .option("-m, --page-margin [margin]", "Print with margin [margin]")
   // .option("-n, --hyphenate [lang]", "Hyphenate with language [language], defaults to "en-us"")
   // .option("-hi, --hypher_ignore [str]", "Ignore passed element selectors, such as ".class_to_ignore, h1"")
@@ -107,14 +108,20 @@ if (typeof input === "string") {
 }
 
 (async () => {
-  let printer = new Printer({
+  const printerOptions = {
     headless: headless,
     allowLocal: allowLocal,
     allowRemote: !program.blockRemote,
     allowedPaths: program.allowedPaths,
     allowedDomains: program.allowedDomains,
     additionalScripts: program.additionalScript,
-  });
+  };
+
+  if (program.forceTransparentBackground) {
+    printerOptions.overrideDefaultBackgroundColor = { r: 0, g: 0, b: 0, a: 0 }; // Workaround to get a transparent background in the resulting PDF. See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498892 for more information.
+  }
+
+  let printer = new Printer(printerOptions);
 
   printer.on("page", (page) => {
     if (page.position === 0) {
diff --git a/src/printer.js b/src/printer.js
index c23adbafc3e0a265fb9c3de55c22d3f40d67535f..0036ff1d4e7b44d1c24f1d437aeb82fdb3ca77e8 100644
--- a/src/printer.js
+++ b/src/printer.js
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class Printer extends EventEmitter {
     this.allowedDomains = options.allowedDomains || [];
     this.ignoreHTTPSErrors = options.ignoreHTTPSErrors;
     this.browserWSEndpoint = options.browserEndpoint;
+    this.overrideDefaultBackgroundColor = options.overrideDefaultBackgroundColor;
 
     this.pages = [];
   }
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ class Printer extends EventEmitter {
       headless: this.headless,
       args: ["--disable-dev-shm-usage"],
       ignoreHTTPSErrors: this.ignoreHTTPSErrors
-    }
+    };
 
     if (this.allowLocal) {
       puppeteerOptions.args.push("--allow-file-access-from-files");
@@ -63,6 +64,10 @@ class Printer extends EventEmitter {
 
     const page = await this.browser.newPage();
 
+    if (this.overrideDefaultBackgroundColor) {
+      page._client.send('Emulation.setDefaultBackgroundColorOverride', { color: this.overrideDefaultBackgroundColor });
+    }
+
     let uri, url, relativePath, html;
     if (typeof input === "string") {
       try {