Boring Printer

Boring Printer sends what is already on your phone to your printer. Photos, PDFs, Word files, web pages, camera scans, a note you just typed. Nothing else.

It is built on Android's own print framework, so it works with whatever printer your phone already knows - Mopria, HP, Epson, Canon, Brother, Samsung. No extra driver, no account, no upload to anyone's cloud.

WHAT YOU CAN PRINT

• Photos - pick several at once, one per page, fit or fill, embedded at about 300 dpi so detail survives the print
• Documents - a PDF prints exactly as it is; DOCX, TXT, HTML, CSV and Markdown are laid out into pages for you
• Web pages - open an address and print the page with its own layout
• Scans - use the camera for multi-page documents, then apply a colour, greyscale or black-and-white filter
• Quick note - type something and print it, cleanly typeset
• Clipboard - print whatever you last copied

HOW IT WORKS

Every print goes through Android's built-in print dialog, so you keep the controls you already know: paper size, copies, colour, orientation, page range. The app's job is to prepare the document properly and hand it over.

Content is generated at print time for the paper you actually chose. Pick A5 instead of A4 and the text is laid out again for A5 rather than squeezed. A PDF you print in full is copied byte for byte, so vector quality is preserved; print a page range and only those pages are re-rendered.

FEATURES

• Print history - reprint anything with one tap
• Printer setup guide - finds the print services installed on your phone and tells you what is missing
• Test page
• Share from any app - "Share -> Boring Printer" and it is ready to print
• Paper sizes: A3, A4, A5, Letter, Legal, 4x6 photo
• Light and dark theme, optional Material You colours
• English, Turkish, Spanish, Hindi and Chinese

PRIVACY

There is no server and no account. Your files, scans and print history stay on the device. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is tracked. The app uses the internet for exactly one thing: loading a web page when you ask it to print one.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

• Printing on Android goes through a "print service". If your phone has none installed, only "Save as PDF" appears in the print dialog. The app detects this and walks you through the setup.
• DOCX keeps the text, not the formatting. XLSX and PPTX are not supported.
• Photo picker links are temporary. If you reprint from history and the original photo is gone, the app tells you instead of printing something wrong.

Privacy policy: https://alikaptanoglu.com/boringprinter/privacy.html

Recent changes:
- A photo or scan that cannot be read is no longer printed as a blank page; the job fails and names the file
- Switching tabs no longer loses an unsaved scan
- A scan is only added to history once its copy is really written