Working on a project that requires alot of printing? You can Print Documents From your Android phone without the need of firing up your laptop. You’ve probably experienced not having enough time to sit down and work on your computer, and instead, you had to do all your work on your smartphone or tablet.
So don’t worry if your work or project is related to printing a lot of documents. Because Google actually has a simple step-by-step guide on how to print from an Android smartphone and even a tablet.
Whether you have one of the Samsung smartphones, one of the Google Pixel smartphones, or any other smartphone running on Android, you can print from your phone by following Google’s really easy steps.
How to Print Documents From your Android phone
Before we start talking about the software point of this whole printing from android device setup we need to do one important thing. You will need “a printer that can get data with Wi-Fi or a mobile network,”.
Once that is ready to go, the first thing you have to do is to open the Chrome app. After that, select the page, file, or even image that you want to print out. Once you have selected what needs to be printed, tap More followed by Share.
Select the option to print and then select the printer. You can change printer settings by tapping the arrow down button.
The chrome method is one of the easiest ways that you might take while dealing with files from online sources. The second method uses androids default print services. Android actually has a default print service.
This service will let you print from Google Photos and will likewise require a WiFi-enabled printer that is on the same local network as your Android device.
You can use this feature once both the printer and Android device are on the same network, pull down the shade and tap the gear icon. Tap Connected Devices, followed by Connection Preferences, and then Printing. After that select, Default Printing Service and toggle the switch to make sure it is turned on.
Close the settings screen and then open the file you want to print. Tap the three-dot Menu icon, followed by Print. Select the printer that is detected by the default printing service. Tap the blue printer icon to begin printing.
Printing from the Gmail App
To print using Gmail, open the app, and choose to compose a new email. Enter your printer’s email address as the recipient of the email. Once you have done that, attach the file that you want to print to the email. Take note that adding text to the body will print said text as a separate document.