Printing

Is it possible to print from your Android device? It is, in multiple ways.

Many of those apps want pretty excessive access to almost all personal data. In most cases, that's explainable by the app's description (print contacts, calendar, call logs) – but honestly: who prints call-logs? When needed, it might be better to export those data and print it selectively. Each on its own, those permissions are not "dangerous". But to access a printer, it requires a network. And who can tell whether data are only sent to the (selected) printer then? At least since the "big sniffing scandal" we know: only irrefutably known facts are ever admitted (and sometimes not even those)…

Direct printing

Vendor specific Printing apps

2020-07-30

Fuji Xerox Print Utility (4.6@4,698) Ǥ 18 3
HP Print Service Plugin (4.5@2,444,323) 15 2
Epson iPrint (4.5@211,116) 18 2 Vorstellung 11/2013
HP ePrint (4.5@11) Ǥ 17 3 LastUpdate: 2018-07-28 / HP Smart (4.2@177,509) Ǥ 20 8 Video Demo 1/2014
Konica Minolta Print Service (4.2@3,115) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Samsung Print Service Plugin (4.1@388,444) Ǥ 14 2
Canon PRINT Business (4.1@11,270) 15 1
Datecs Print Service (4@342) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Canon Print Service (3.9@107,643) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Epson Print Enabler (3.9@90,871) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
KYOCERA Mobile Print (3.8@3,529) Ǥ 17 4
e-BRIDGE Print & Capture Lite (3.8@215) Ǥ 19 2 / e-BRIDGE Print & Capture (3.7@470) Ǥ 19 2
Brother Print Service Plugin (3.6@41,042) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Brother iPrint&Scan (3.5@75,108) 16 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Brother iPrint&Label (3.6@1,955) 15 3 Manual; Video Howto 2/2014 | 12/2018
Samsung Mobile Print (3.3@50,836) Ǥ 18 1 / Samsung Mobile Print Control (3.5@460) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-05-31 explicit Linux/Mac support
Mobile Print (3.3@973) 19 3 OKI
Lexmark Mobile Print (3.2@3,688) Ǥ 14 1
KODAK Document Print App (3@1,344) 10 1 LastUpdate: 2018-01-31
Olivetti Mobile Print (2.8@147) Ǥ 17 4
Zebra Utilities (2.3@275) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-03-22 / Print Station (2.8@108) 10 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-04-06

Vendor overlapping Printing apps

2020-07-29

Mopria Print Service (4.6@31,060) Ǥ 12 3
PrinterShare Mobile Print (4.1@142,251) Ǥ 17 1 / PrinterShare Premium Key (4.5@41,629; ~EUR 7.00) Ǥ 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Review 2/2014; Test 5/2015; Vorstellung 9/2013
StarPrint - Mobile Print App (4.1@13,753) Ǥ 18 8 LastUpdate: 2017-01-24 might need additional paid modules
Quick Printer (ESC POS Print) (4@1,060) Ǥ 13 1 POS printers;
Hammer Print (3.9@13,114) Ǥ 26 3 Video Demo 5/2014; How it works; cloud and local network
PrintHand Mobile Print (3.8@26,741) Ǥ 26 2 / PrintHand Mobile Print Premium (4.2@2,826; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 24 1 Test 5/2015; Yay those permissions! Beware!
Direrct Print Service (3.8@1,501) 2 2 / Direct Print Service - Donate (4.7@3; ~EUR 5.50) $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-03-09 Requires FOSS Direct Print Server; Linux/Windows
Printer 2 Go (3.7@6,697) Ǥ 26 3
CUPS Printing (3.5@494) 2 1 Github
GNG Mobile Print (3.5@22) 9 LastUpdate: 2016-08-15 Requires Windows pendant
Let´s Print Droid (3.4@1,182) 7 2 LastUpdate: 2017-12-22
Print from Android trial (3.4@481) Ǥ 9 3 LastUpdate: 2017-04-11 Windows companion required?
Printer Bluetooth Connect (3.3@378) Ǥ 10 5
CUSTOM Print Service Plugin (3.2@57) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / CustomPrint (3.2@43) Ǥ 11 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
PrintEasy: Print Anything From Anywhere Easily (3.1@1,088) Ǥ 9 6
ThinkFree Print (2.8@1,564) Ǥ 21 4 LastUpdate: 2017-11-26
ePrint Free (2.8@719) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-07-26

Cloud Printing