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

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Fuji Xerox Print Utility (4.7@6,817) Ǥ 14 4 LastUpdate: 2021-04-16
Epson iPrint (4.6@533,938) 20 2
HP Print Service Plugin (4.2@2,981,475) Ǥ 21 4
Datecs Print Service (4.1@397) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
HP Smart (3.8@649,799) Ǥ 31 8
Epson Print Enabler (3.8@129,924) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Samsung Print Service Plugin (3.5@470,874) Ǥ 16 4
Canon Print Service (3.5@133,608) Ǥ 13 1
Canon PRINT Business (3.4@14,708) 18 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Video Tutorial 4/2019
Konica Minolta Print Service (3.3@4,822) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-12-02
Brother iPrint&Scan (3.2@97,531) 18 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Brother iPrint&Label (4.2@5,556) 20 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Manual; Video Howto 12/2018
Brother Print Service Plugin (3.2@65,914) 13 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Samsung Mobile Print (3@59,867) Ǥ 19 1 explicit Linux/Mac support
Lexmark Mobile Print (3@4,353) Ǥ 13 1
Mobile Print (2.9@1,224) Ǥ 22 5 OKI
e-BRIDGE Print & Capture Lite (2.6@225) Ǥ 20 3 / e-BRIDGE Print & Capture (4.3@628) Ǥ 22 3
KYOCERA Mobile Print (2.3@4,944) Ǥ 22 5
Print Station (1.4@182) 15 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Cat Printer (0@0) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github

Vendor overlapping Printing apps

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Mopria Print Service (4.6@47,587) Ǥ 14 2 Review 10/2022
Hammer Print (4.6@13,224) Ǥ 21 3 How it works; cloud and local network
PrinterShare Mobile Print (4.2@183,987) Ǥ 20 1 / PrinterShare Premium Key (4.5@42,156; ~EUR 9.00) Ǥ 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Test 5/2015
Let’s Print Droid (3.9@1,250) Ǥ 8 2 LastUpdate: 2018-08-11
CUPS Printing (3.7@625) 2 1 LastUpdate: 2020-03-08 Github
Quick Printer (ESC POS Print) (3.5@1,674) Ǥ 12 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ POS printers;
PrintHand Mobile Print (3.4@30,922) Ǥ 21 3 / PrintHand Mobile Print Premium (3.9@2,946; ~EUR 17.00) Ǥ 15 2 Test 5/2015; Yay those permissions! Beware!
Printer 2 Go (3.4@7,000) Ǥ 21 3
Printer Bluetooth Connect (3.3@464) Ǥ 12 2
Direct Print Service (3.1@1,854) 4 2 Requires FOSS Direct Print Server; Linux/Windows
PrintEasy: Print Anything From (2.9@1,288) Ǥ 10 5
CUSTOM Print Service Plugin (2@65) 11 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / CUSTOMPrint (1@45) Ǥ 13 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
OctoTC (0@0) 15 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; OctoPrint for older Android devices

Cloud Printing

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Hammer Print (4.6@13,224) Ǥ 21 3 How it works; cloud and local network
Teamplace (3.9@849) Ǥ 21 3
PrinterOn Print Service (3.4@20,177) Ǥ 18 2
Printer 2 Go (3.4@7,000) Ǥ 21 3
PrintBot (3@6,589) Ǥ 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ pictures, PDF, static HTML; 2800+ models supported
Micro Focus iPrint (2.8@150) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-02-06 Video Promo 10/2018
HP ePrint Enterprise (service) (2.7@7,427) 14 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-08-19 Wikipedia EN

Further Readings:

Everything You Need to Know About Printing From Your Android Phone or Tablet (7/2018 - 3/2023)
The Best Printer Apps For Android (7/2018 - 11/2020)
Drucken vom Handy – das sind die besten Apps (7/2017)

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Printing

Direct printing

Vendor specific Printing apps

Vendor overlapping Printing apps

Cloud Printing