How can I print an email? I have a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE with Android 13. I have a Canon printer.
I can’t find a print option anywhere.
Bill
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Have you tried sharing the email to Samsung Print Service Plugin?
I have a Default Print Service, but it doesn’t show when I select share in K-9. Nothing shows regarding printing when I select share in K-9.
Why isn’t there a print option in the K-9 menu? All the other mail programs I’ve used have a print option.
Bill
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I don’t ever print from my phone, but when I tap the overflow menu in the K-9 message header, then select Share, followed by More, I have Samsung Print Service Plugin available as an option. I expect that should be able to get your message to a compatible printer, even if you have to dig a little deeper in the share menu than the app suggests on this screen.
I have been using “PrinterShare Mobile Print” on all my Samsung devices
( https://play.google.com/store/search?q=printershare&c=apps) to print to a network attached Canon printer.
I can do this by opening the email and then select “share” from the more menu in the email (not the one on top), followed by selecting the “PrinterShare” icon.
Something interesting, the preview shown by “PrinterShare” highlights two problems with the K-9 message display. First is that the print details correctly shows the date/time the message was send (instead of “Sun”) and it shows the recipient email address (instead of “me”).
Thanks linkp and Ernst.
I had two print services defined on my phone (I finally found where they are defined). They were “Default Print Service” and “Canon Print Service”. Neither showed up when I opened an email and selected “share”. I added “Samsung Print Service” and that does show up in K-9 so now I am able to print from K-9.
Ernst, you are right about the actual recipient email address showing instead of “me”. I’m really not sure why ByteHamster is so resistant to having an option to do this in K-9 itself.
Bill
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I’m even less sure of why K-9 requires this. Why is there no print option in K-9. Every other email client I’ve used has had a print option. Other apps that I have other than email programs also have print options. What is the reason for not having a print option???
Bill
It could simply be that the developers never had the need to print from their mobile. I never have. That isn’t meant to invalidate your desire to print from mobile. I just mean to illustrate that it is a function that I would never have thought to include if I were the one writing the application.
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I never used to, but now I do it once in awhile, often when I am not near my computer.
As younger folks tend to have only phones or maybe a phone and a tablet nowadays (at least in my experience), it seems to make sense to include that capability. Most other apps have it.
Bill
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I print from my phone frequently. Problem with printing from share menu is document gets re-loaded, sometimes asking for login in the print preview. Today this happened with confirmation email from restaurant. Only work-around was to open in gmail app.
I would like to push this feature request again. I often need to print an email, mostly virtually printing it into a PDF file.
I don’t think it’s very difficult to call the android print dialog from the app. So could you please add this option to the mail view? Thanks a lot in advance!
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I certainly agree this makes sense, though there are a bunch of other issues we’d love to get to first. Adding printing support is tracked at Request: Printing e-mails via Android 4.4 new printing services · Issue #1062 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android · GitHub if you’d like to follow it. If someone would like to take it up please let us know on the issue!
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I’d also like to see a print option implemented. Currently, I’m using Printer 2 Go or PrinterShare Mobile Print to save the email as PDF which I then can open with my bluetooth thermo printer app and make the print.
Here is how:
→ open the email
→ tip the 3 dots menu
→ tip “share”
→ select “Printer 2 Go” or “PrinterShare Mobile Print”
→ print to PDF
However, this way I get text only but not embedded images.