Let's Print Droid

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About this app

Let’s Print Droid (LPD) is a Cloud-free printing service for Android phones and Tablets.

Ink Jet and USB printer users please read the app's Ink Jet help file. You may need to use Google Cloud Print. This app is not perfect for novice users.

If you have a business grade laser or print server (CUPS,LPR,SAMBA, etc) , the app will talk directly to them without any off-site conversion. No print data leaves your local network unless you choose the GCP (Google Cloud Print) option. (This app is not NSA approved ;-)

- Works on devices using Android 2.3 or greater.
- Designed to print to wifi connected laser printers.
- implements the Android Print Framework Service; use the Print option on Gmail, Chrome, Gallery, etc.
- connects to CUPS on Linux (Raspberry Pi up to the largest servers), Unix or Macintosh.
- ideal for connecting to print servers as it understands most protocols: Line Printer Daemon, IPP/CUPS, Server Message Block/CIFS, HTTP, JetDirect/RAW, etc.
- use the Share or Send function of another Android app to print.
-LPD supports Google Cloud Print. Just choose Cloud Print from the Protocol option list in the Add Printer dialog box.
- LPD can print PDFs, Jpeg, PNG, GIF images, Text Documents and static web pages.
- LPD includes generic PCL,POSTSCRIPT, PDF & Airprint Universal Raster drivers if your printer does not understand Raw image files.
- It allows visiting Android users to print with minimal configuration by the user. Load the app, scan a QR code; the document prints.
- LPD can also perform simple File Transfers using FTP(S), HTTP(S) or SMB/CIFS. Transfers are performed similarly to printing and appear as options in the Protocol pull-down in Add Printer screen.
- It enables secure corporate “cloud printing” when teamed with server software such as Enterprise Output Manager by Unisys, Microsoft Server or Linux/Unix.
- A detailed free-ware work around for all types of printers (including USB connected) is provided in the help files.
- Download the companion app "Let's Print PDF" to render PDFs on your android device or choose off-device rendering if you have a CUPS server. See the Help Files.
- Bonjour (AirPrint) / Avahi Printer Discovery using multicast DNS. Hit menu->New Printer and choose Scan option.
- Compatible with most AirPrint capable printers.

Ratings and reviews

I can manually add printer no problem and it prints the QR code fine. But... Auto add scan doesn't work and the Android framework doesn't see it. I can try and add a printer via framework using "Lets Print Droid" but it just runs the autoscan which fails to find. Anyway to add a correctly configured manual printer to the Android system for printing off chrome? (as example)

I have a printer connected to an Asus router via USB. I've managed to print a test page from my phone (LPR protocol). But when I tried to print a .jpg image from the internal storage of my phone it failed and I got a socket exception "connection reset". I moved the .jpg to the SD card on the phone and it was printed successfully. Strange behaviour. Probably, it's related to file access permissions. May be not.

I knew nothing about configuring my printer, but I knew it supported PS, and its IP address. This was all I needed to have it printing in five seconds flat. This functionality should frankly be built in to Android, but then it would take up three times the storage so who's complaining? Thank you kindly!

What's new

Bug-fix follow up to Oreo release.