NetPrinter

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Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Do you have a printer, maybe an older one, that you would like to print to from your phone or tablet? An inkjet or a black-and-white or color laser? Something even its manufacturer doesn't support any more? Or they want to force you to subscribe to some cloud printing service to use it?

You found an app that allows you to print to a network printer directly from your device. Yes, on your home or office network, behind your own router and firewall. There is no cloud, nothing uploaded, nothing sent out, no registration, no external service to depend upon: everything happens on your own internal network – between your device and your printer.

Just check that your printer understands one of the many supported printer languages directly:

- PWG (IPP Everywhere)
- PCLm, PCLmS (Mopria)
- Airprint/URF (Apple)
- PDF
- PostScript
- PCL 3 GUI (Hewlett-Packard)
- PCL 5/5c (Hewlett-Packard)
- PCL 6e/XL (Hewlett-Packard)
- HP-GL/2 RTL (Hewlett-Packard)
- ESC/P2 (Epson)
- ESC/P-R (Epson)
- ESC/PAGE (Epson)
- GDI host-based (many)
- XPS (Windows)
- P-Touch (Brother)
- ESC/POS (Epson)
- StarPRNT (Star Micronics)
- TSPL/TSPL2 (TSC)
- ZPL, EPL (Zebra)
- DYMO LM/LW (Dymo)

and it's connected to your local network (or your device) using one of the many supported connections:

- Ethernet
- WiFi
- WiFi Direct
- Bluetooth
- USB OTG (On-The-Go)

and protocols:

- RAW (JetDirect, AppSocket, Port 9100, TCPmon)
- LPD/LPR
- IPP/CUPS (Linux or Mac)
- Samba (Windows)
- WSD (Windows)
- UPnP
- FTP

You can configure the printer manually or automatically with:

- Bonjour/Avahi/ZeroConf
- WiFi Direct/Mopria
- Bluetooth, Smart/LE
- IPP/CUPS
- Samba
- WSD
- UPnP

The app adds all your configured printers to Android and they will be available for any app that's capable to print: be it an e-mail app, calendar, document editor, game or whatever else.

The paid version, in addition to removing the ads, rewards your support with several extra features:

- use the server mode (see below);
- you can print more than one page on a paper (N-up printing);
- when you print several images to a page, they are printed in a collage layout instead of a simple, boring grid, with adaptive sizes to show each image in full, without cropping;
- you can select from several display (dithering) options to make printing both black-and-white and colored image material much more interesting;
- you can enlarge a smaller page to fit the page size of the printer;
- you can change the brightness of the printout;
- you can use non-uniform printer resolutions.

SERVER MODE: The app is also capable of the reverse operation: instead of printing to a printer on your network, it can provide the print server that you can print to from your other network devices. Practically, you can connect your printer with an USB OTG adapter to your phone (maybe to an older phone no longer used) and it will become a full-fledged print server supporting the protocols above, accepting incoming print jobs from all your other mobile devices or computers, too.

ADS AND PRIVACY: Ads in the free version of the app are served by Google only. We don't sell or share your data, we don't even handle them. Privacy options are available wherever possible (EU/US) and you can revisit them anytime in Settings.

Ratings and reviews

Works good with my Brother HL-1110 printer connected to a Digitus DN-13003-2 printserver 👍 2 minor downsites : big documents take a very long time before printing and you can't choose wich pages to print. Thats probably an android thing because there is also no option in the apps to select wich pages.

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! Got my ancient Color LaserJet compatible printer working! Now, I know it's a big ask, but how about specific compatibility with the Brother MFC-9420CN? (And maybe for my even more ancient FX-85 (which the Brother Emulates via FX-850 emulation)? Yeah, it's an even more ancient, pre-windows 9 pin dot matrix printer, so it's even a bigger ask. Though I do have a real one down in the basement that I used up to Windows 98SE. IT WAS/IS A TANK!

An app that actually does what it says, in 2025, without pay eternally, web service idiocy? Crazy, I know... Honestly, unless there is something hidden, this is what all apps should aspire to be: no nonsense, just works.

What’s new

Fixed preferences regression