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

2020-05-19

Fuji Xerox Print Utility (4.6@4,164) Ǥ 18
HP Print Service Plugin (4.5@2,391,483) 15
Epson iPrint (4.5@184,862) 18 Vorstellung 11/2013
HP ePrint (4.5@11) Ǥ 17 LastUpdate: 2018-07-28 / HP Smart (4.3@163,104) Ǥ 18 Video Demo 1/2014
Canon PRINT Business (4.2@10,862) 15
Konica Minolta Print Service (4.2@2,955) 3
Samsung Print Service Plugin (4.1@375,048) Ǥ 14
Canon Print Service (3.9@103,093) 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Epson Print Enabler (3.9@86,993) 4
Datecs Print Service (3.9@333) 8
e-BRIDGE Print & Capture Lite (3.8@209) Ǥ 19 / e-BRIDGE Print & Capture (3.5@461) Ǥ 19
Brother Print Service Plugin (3.7@39,119) 8
KYOCERA Mobile Print (3.6@3,399) Ǥ 17
Brother iPrint&Scan (3.5@72,804) 16 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / Brother iPrint&Label (3.9@1,848) 15 Manual; Video Howto 2/2014 | 12/2018
Samsung Mobile Print (3.2@49,670) Ǥ 18 / Samsung Mobile Print Control (3.5@460) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-05-31 explicit Linux/Mac support
Lexmark Mobile Print (3.1@3,594) 12 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Mobile Print (3.1@947) 19 OKI
KODAK Document Print App (3@1,344) 10 LastUpdate: 2018-01-31
Olivetti Mobile Print (2.8@144) Ǥ 17
Zebra Utilities (2.3@267) 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-03-22 / Print Station (2.9@105) 10 LastUpdate: 2018-04-06

Vendor overlapping Printing apps

2020-05-18

Mopria Print Service (4.6@27,827) Ǥ 12
PrinterShare Mobile Print (4.1@137,812) Ǥ 17 / PrinterShare Premium Key (4.6@41,494; ~EUR 7.00) Ǥ 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Review 2/2014; Test 5/2015; Vorstellung 9/2013
StarPrint - Mobile Print App (4.1@13,753) Ǥ 18 LastUpdate: 2017-01-24 might need additional paid modules
Direct Print Service (3.9@1,423) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-08-25 / Direct Print Service - Donate (4.7@3; ~EUR 5.50) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-03-09 Requires FOSS Direct Print Server; Linux/Windows
Quick Printer (ESC POS Print) (3.9@935) Ǥ 13 POS printers;
Hammer Print (3.8@13,039) Ǥ 24 Video Demo 5/2014; How it works; cloud and local network
PrintHand Mobile Print (3.7@26,229) Ǥ 26 / PrintHand Mobile Print Premium (4.1@2,792; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 24 Test 5/2015; Yay those permissions! Beware!
Printer 2 Go (3.6@6,599) Ǥ 26
CUPS Printing (3.6@480) 2 Github
GNG Mobile Print (3.5@22) 9 LastUpdate: 2016-08-15 Requires Windows pendant
Print from Android trial (3.4@481) Ǥ 9 LastUpdate: 2017-04-11 Windows companion required?
Let´s Print Droid (3.3@1,173) 7 LastUpdate: 2017-12-22
Printer Bluetooth Connect (3.3@364) Ǥ 10
CUSTOM Print Service Plugin (3.2@56) 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / CustomPrint (3.2@43) Ǥ 11 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
PrintEasy: Print Anything From Anywhere Easily (3.1@1,046) Ǥ 9
ThinkFree Print (2.8@1,541) Ǥ 21 LastUpdate: 2017-11-26
ePrint Free (2.8@719) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-07-26

Cloud Printing