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

2022-09-19

Fuji Xerox Print Utility (4.7@6,817) Ǥ 14 4
HP Print Service Plugin (4.2@2,873,350) Ǥ 20 4
Datecs Print Service (4.1@397) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-04-15
Epson iPrint (4@359,986) Ǥ 22 2
Epson Print Enabler (3.9@124,157) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
HP Smart (3.5@536,863) Ǥ 28 10
Canon Print Service (3.4@127,910) Ǥ 13 1
Canon PRINT Business (3.4@14,156) 18 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Video Tutorial 4/2019
Samsung Print Service Plugin (3.3@462,457) Ǥ 15 4
Brother Print Service Plugin (3.3@60,545) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Konica Minolta Print Service (3.3@4,691) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-12-02
Brother iPrint&Scan (3.2@93,859) 16 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Brother iPrint&Label (4.1@4,235) 18 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Manual; Video Howto 12/2018
Samsung Mobile Print (3@58,908) Ǥ 17 1 LastUpdate: 2020-07-24 explicit Linux/Mac support
Lexmark Mobile Print (3@4,303) Ǥ 14 1
Mobile Print (2.9@1,185) Ǥ 22 6 OKI
e-BRIDGE Print & Capture Lite (2.9@223) Ǥ 21 2 / e-BRIDGE Print & Capture (4.3@589) Ǥ 19 2
KYOCERA Mobile Print (2.7@4,650) Ǥ 22 5
Zebra Utilities (1.6@352) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-03-22 / Print Station (1.7@156) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-02-05

Vendor overlapping Printing apps

2022-09-22

Hammer Print (4.6@13,246) Ǥ 20 4 How it works; cloud and local network
Mopria Print Service (4.4@43,450) Ǥ 14 2
PrinterShare Mobile Print (4@176,899) Ǥ 20 1 / PrinterShare Premium Key (4.4@42,151; ~EUR 9.00) Ǥ 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-01-17 Test 5/2015
Let’s Print Droid (3.8@1,244) Ǥ 8 2 LastUpdate: 2018-08-11
CUPS Printing (3.7@607) 2 1 LastUpdate: 2020-03-08 Github
Printer 2 Go (3.5@6,988) Ǥ 20 4
Quick Printer (ESC POS Print) (3.5@1,631) Ǥ 12 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ POS printers;
PrintHand Mobile Print (3.4@30,019) Ǥ 20 4 / PrintHand Mobile Print Premium (4@2,943; ~EUR 17.00) Ǥ 16 2 Test 5/2015; Yay those permissions! Beware!
Direct Print Service (3@1,803) 4 3 LastUpdate: 2020-07-02 Requires FOSS Direct Print Server; Linux/Windows
Printer Bluetooth Connect (3@450) Ǥ 11 3
PrintEasy: Print Anything From (2.9@1,279) Ǥ 10 5
CUSTOM Print Service Plugin (2@65) 11 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / CustomPrint (1@45) Ǥ 13 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$

Cloud Printing