3rd Update - Android Printing from Outlook App

Anonymous
2018-12-27T23:57:17+00:00

3rd Update -  Don't dump the Outlook App on your Android!  I found what must be the original method to print directly from your Android phone and you 

don't need a cloud to do this.  I hope this works for everyone who visits this post!!  

1.  I use the Outlook app on my Android Samsung to access my email accounts.  It's an icon that I tap on, very simple.  And that is where I cannot print an email.

     And I'm assuming you cannot print from your Outlook app either, or you would not be here.

2.  To print an email message, instead of using the Outlook app, use Outlook.live.com in your Chrome web browser (assuming (again) that you use Chrome).  

3.  Go to outlook.live.com and Sign In.   This should open up your Outlook email account in the web browser.  Open your email message.   

     Tap the 3 vertical (not horizontal) dots at the very top right corner of the browser bar,  then tap **Share.**You should see Print.

You should be linked to your printer first, and be able to print.

4.  Unfortunately, creating an icon to your Android homescreen eliminates the outlook.live.com webpage in your browser for some reason.  

     You will need to open a web browser directly in order to find the 3 vertical dots at the top right corner of the browser bar.

2021 Update - I have an HP printer 4650 all-in-one ink jet.  I ignored the fact e-printing is available with it because I didn't understand this service that came with the  printer for free.  But now, I realize I can print so easily from my Android any document.  This printer is a web-connected printer so I can do mobile printing. I can automatically print from my Samsung android no matter where I am.  I'VE HAD THIS FEATURE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IT WAS!  I don't have to be in my house with wifi because e-printing allows me to forward the email to a HP e-mail account that I have set up on their website with easy instructions, and the printer automatically prints the email for me.  I don't have to be nearby to setup the printer.  So my advice to you with your Android, is to find a cloud service that you can connect your printer to somehow, if you don't have a web-connected printer.  I did try to send my email to Microsoft Drive but the email would save in computer language, repeatedly with any document so that didn't work.  I found an e-print button on my printer that printed out the instructions for setting up the HP account and to do mobile printing.  I found this article that may help others with cloud service.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/168769/4-easy-ways-to-remotely-print-over-the-network-or-internet/amp/

My Update - I have a Samsung Galaxy S9 smart phone and can print my emails fine.  Here is a step-by-step for you to try that explains it better.  Let me know if you can't get it to work on your Android phone.   Remember, my phone was issued in late 2018 so if your phone is older, that may be totally different from what I can do.

  1. Open Outlook email

2.  Hit 'Reply', you should see your message area to type and the original email message so scroll up to view the original message you want to print.

3.  Hold your finger on the screen over the message text for the pop-up and select 'Select All', then on the next pop-up select 'Copy'.

4.  Close the window and open the SamsungNotes app (mine is an orange and white icon)

5.  Hit the plus button '+' to open a new note.

  1. Hold your finger on the screen to 'paste all'.  You should see your original email message now in the note.

7.  Hit 'Save'.

8.  You will see a symbols bar with a pen, star, share, and 3 dots.  Tap the 3 dots for the pulldown menu and select "Print".

9.  Wait several seconds for your printer to appear and print.  If your printer is not connected properly, you will not see it.  

Original Post - Questions to MS have been posted on why Androids cannot print Outlook emails directly or with wifi to wireless printers.  MS answered this feature is not yet available on android phones.  So how do we print Outlook emails for now? 

  Hit Reply to the email message then copy by Selecting All. 

 Open Samsung Notes app or any other notepad you use then Paste the message onto a note.  You may lose animation or graphics but the email details will be there.

 Hit Save.  Click on the three dots at top right corner for pulldown menu and select Print.

 Make sure your phone is synced to the printer first though.  That's it!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-17T16:46:32+00:00

    Thank for the info.

    But this is very convoluted for performing a simple common function.

    Microsoft please fix this

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T00:41:59+00:00

    I AM A STUDENT.... who WAITED for technology to catch up with my learning style....  I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM READING!!!!!!  No wonder schools are not using the full Office Suite, even IF it is paid for.  I am a Teams LOVER and thought the issue was just related to that app, but a simple ability to print my email from my professor with my assignments listed .....from...my....phone.... NOT being possible on OCTOBER 28, TWENTY TWENTY!?!?!?!??!??!?!??!?!?!??!?!  Microsoft...are you KIDDING me???  

    (please upvote this to get their attention and maybe that of Google!)

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T00:45:31+00:00

    Jennifer, thank you for your reply from 2018.  It is now almost November 2020, post-Covid, only 5 days until the craziest election date in the history of America.... BUT STILL CAN'T PRINT AN EMAIL FROM OUTLOOK to and ANDROID PHONE!?!?!?!??!?!   Really????  And I thought the choices for election were the icing on the 2020 cake.  THIS, however, TAKES THE CAKE!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-30T20:40:17+00:00

    Blue Mail ROCKS!  I've been using it for a couple years, and just recently tried Outlook App because Blue Mail sometimes has issues with searching.  Outlook App though is terrible for a couple reasons.  Lack of PRINT is the deal killer, but also the UI is just stupid for a mobile device.  Why did they put the action bar on the top of the screen!?  I haven't seen the hands of MS employees, but I suspect they work like mine and their thumbs are near the bottom of the screen when holding a phone.  Maybe it's just me. LOL.  Blue Mail also is customizable as to the buttons, and a big one is what happens when you delete a email.  With Blue Mail I have it set to go to the next message.  So I can quickly go through a long email list and delete, move, reply, etc. and it goes to the next message.  Outlook has no options and goes back to the email list!  Doubling the time to get through my morning email.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-05T14:18:34+00:00

    THANKS.  Horrible that we have to do this for a simple print of an email.  I just spent $1200 for a Samsung Galaxy S7+ and I can't do things on it that I've always been able to do on my 6 year old iPad Air2.  It's inexcusable that a function as basic and necessary as PRINT isn't available in an Office app.  Is Microsoft buying stock in Apple and doesn't have any interest in improving their product on Android?  I hate Apple because it's so proprietary but think I would have been better off going with a new iPad Pro.

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