![]() Regardless of where you find it, once you start the printing process, your phone will automatically detect any printer's presence on your network and list it as an option - and you can print away to your heart's content (or discontent, whichever the case may be). On any reasonably recent Android phone, you can look for the print command within any app that supports it - such as Google Docs, shown here - and then print away without any further thought or configuration. ![]() ![]() In Google Docs, you'd open that same menu but first tap "Share & export" and then select "Print." JR Raphael/IDG In the Gmail or Microsoft Word, or instance, you'd tap the three-dot menu icon in the upper-right corner and then look for the "Print" command in the list of options that appears. There's really nothing to it: So long as you're connected to the same Wi-Fi network as a Mopria-certified printer (and odds are, any printer in your office or home has that designation Mopria says the overwhelming majority of printers sold nowadays do), all you have to do is find the print command in any app that offers it and then tap away with that pretty little finger of yours. At this point, provided you have a reasonably up-to-date Android device, the ability to print from your phone is built right into the operating system and as easy as can be.Īs of 2017's Android 8 (Oreo) release, Google has partnered with the Mopria Alliance - a nonprofit mobile printing standards organization - to bring a native and no-thought-requiring printing function to all Android devices. Well, take a deep breath and calm your inner person: Such horrific complications are no longer needed. ![]() 'Twas a time when turning a document on your mobile device into a zesty combination of pulp and ink required a cumbersome third-party plugin - or, worse yet, the daunting, often unreliable, and only just recently put out of its misery Google Cloud Print service (gasp!). ![]()
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