Galaxy S6 Guide

How to print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge?

Step-by-step guide on printing from Galaxy S6 or S6 edge to your local printer

What do I need to print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge?

As you already know, Galaxy S6 or S6 edge is as powerful as some laptops. According to the calculation of Expert Exchange, Galaxy S6 has about 35 GFLOPS raw processing power, which is comparable to most middle range laptops.

This explains why many Galaxy S6 owners use the phone as pocket laptop to process documents, edit photos and perform other office duties.

When you have documents in Galaxy S6 or S6 edge, you may wonder whether you can print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge directly.

The answer is yes. Google have this solution in Android for a few years already.

You can print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge locally (to a printer in your local network) or through cloud.

In this guide we will discuss about printing to local printers.  Google cloud printing will be discussed in a separate page.

What you need to print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge include:

  • a network connected printer.
  • same network for printer and Galaxy S6 or S 6 edge,  preferably connecting to the same router.
  • the Android printer plugin provided by the printer manufacturer, normally released in Google Play store for free.
  • patience.

Step-by-Step guide on how to print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge to local printer

Step 1: prepare your printer

The first step to print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge is to make sure the printer is ready. This means:

  • the printer is connected to network either through Ethernet cable, or through wireless connections. Most modern printers are network enabled.
  • the printer should have no errors, e.g., out of paper, no ink/toner…..

You need follow the printer setup guide to set the printer and connect it to the network.

Step 2: install printer plugin

In this guide, I suppose you use a Brother printer. For other brands, you can search Play store to find the corresponding print service plugins.

If you are using a Samsung printer, you may skip this step because Samsung printer plugin was pre-installed on Galaxy S6 and S6 edge.

As shown below,  when you search “brother printer”, two top results are returned under apps.

What you need is the second one “Brother Printer Service Plugin”. For other brands, you should also check for plugins, not standalone app.

Tap  Brother Printer Service Plugin to enter app info page.

You can check again whether this is a print service plugin.

Tap INSTALL as shown below.

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Just like any other apps, before installing the printer plugin, you are prompted with the permission acknowledgement.

Tap Accept as shown below to proceed.

Now, the brother printer plugin is being installed to your Galaxy S6.

It may take 1 or 2 mins depending on your network connections.

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Step 3. activate printer plugin

By default, the newly installed printer plugin is not activated.

To print from Galaxy S6 or S6 edge to local printer, you need activate the printer plugin (print service plugin to be precisely). You only need activate the plugin once.

Go to Galaxy S6 Settings in either ways:

  1. from apps screen, tap Settings.
  2. from notification panel (swipe down from status bar or top of the screen with one finger), tap Settings (gear) icon.

In Settings page, tap More connection settings (under connections) as shown below.

Tap Printing as shown below.

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Now, you can find all installed printer plugins in your Galaxy S6 or S6 edge.

In this page, you can also find Download plug-in option. But it seems the search is not good. It is better to search brand directly in Play store.

Tap Brother Print Service Plugin as shown below.

In the new page, you need drag the switch to right side to activate the brother printer plugin as shown below.

Once the printer plugin is activated, the switch will turn green as shown below if you are using the default Galaxy S6 theme. If you are using other Galaxy S6 themes, the color may be different.

In addition, your Galaxy S6 or S6 edge will start to search for Brother printers in the network.  In this case, it found the MFC-J650DW. This means Galaxy S6 is ready to print to this printer.

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Step 4: print from apps

Different apps may have different ways to access printing function. You need check inside the app you are using.

For example, you want to print a photo.

In Gallery app, you can open the photo. Tap it once to get the options.

Tap Share as shown below.

Tap Print in the sharing options as shown below.

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By default, Android will try to print to PDF.

So, you need change it to your printer by tapping the down arrow in the right side of Save as PDF as shown below.

You can also change the paper settings including size, margin and orientation.

Select your printer and get the printed photo from your printer.

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Can you print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge to your local printer now?

If you have any questions or get any problems to print from Galaxy S6 and S6 edge to your local printer, please let us know them in the comment box below.

The community will try to help you find a solution.

For other features of Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 online manual page.

For detailed guides on how to use Samsung Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 how-to guides page.

For detailed guides on how to use Galaxy S6 camera, please check Galaxy S6 camera guide page.



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Comments

  1. Hi! When I tries printing a document from Google Drive on my S6 Edge, the entire document was extremely small and difficult to read. I have already tried experimenting with the paper size options but that has not seemed to help. Thanks!

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  2. Your instructions were perfect. Able to print a Gmail and photo on the first try and I’m no “Techie” by a long shot. THANK YOU.

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  5. Just wanted to thank you for your detail instruction!! Keep up the good work!! I was able to print on the1st try – S6

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  6. Somehow my s6 edge is not able to find my xerox printer. I was able to set it up through google play, but can not set it up in the phone. I downloaded xerox print service app and enabled it, but it doesn’t find any printers, although both my phone and printer are connected to the same wireless network.
    Anybody had the same problem?

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  7. on my Galaxy s6, when try to print the “Save as PDF” view shows as flash and disappeared, dont stay. This is new device and did not install any print plugins.

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  9. I have printed on my printer from my s6 phone before without any difficulty. But today it will not either print or cancel print job. I had to go to my main computer to get it to print. Now I cannot get rid of the notification that is deleting. Maybe I should wait after all it’s only be 16 hours 🙁 rebooting the phone does not work.

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  11. I use a HP 5530 printer and following your instructions for the plug-in I was able to go to gallery and print a picture, but what I really want to do is print from my G Mail account. I installed HP ePrint and I have that option, but it says I require an additional security step. it also doesn’t seem to acknowledge Type app.

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  12. Thank you! Thank you! I’ve been all over the internet on three separate occasions trying to figure out how to print directly from my Note 5 to the printer. My Canon printer model has issues with printing from Google Drive and Canon still hasn’t resolved it, so my only option was to print directly like my computer does. You were the ONLY person that fixed my problem, and I tried several “how to’s” before I found you.

    Just thanks, really…

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  13. When I try to install the HP print service plugin, I get an error message saying, “You don’t have any devices.” with a red upside down triangle.

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  14. Hey. I have the same problem with my s6 as was mentioned earlier (the menu where you choose pdf or printer is wisible for a little second and then it’s gone).. I have tried to wipe cashe partition and it still doesn’t work. Doe’s anybody know something else I can try?

    Tor

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  16. Yes. Still flashes and then disappearing. . Yes, email, gallery, you name it. I am able to print using the e-print app from HP.. but it’s not the same. To many operations, and just really annoying. ..

    Tor

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  18. I use print on google chrome and want to have a web page as pdf file. It suddenly crashed and the message appear:
    The print spooler has stoped…
    Please help me….
    My phone is galaxy s6

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  20. I keep getting “printer not available” when I try to print from Galaxy S6 to hp wireless printer. It worked in the past though so not sure how to resolve this. HP print add in is up to date.

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  21. Thanks so much, I could not figure out why my Hp Print Services plug in was not working. Its in “Other” that you have to enable it! doh. Who thought of putting that there?

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  22. Hi, I’ve followed everything and my phone finds my printer fine. However when I try to print it get this error message – ‘Printer error passwords’.
    Can you help please?

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  23. I am trying to print from a Samsung tablet to a HP Officejet 4632, but get the reply “Failed to change settings. Try again. I have installed the HP printer plug in and turned it on. When trying to print from my email, I hit the down arrow across from save as PDF an choose my printer. When I try to print I get “Failed to change settings. I have used the same procedure on my Samsung S6 phone and all works fine.

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  24. I have the same issue as Cheryl posted on 12-7-16. My Samsung S6 and my Samsung tablet both give me the message “Failed to change settings. Try again.” I have followed the exact same steps as Cheryl with no results. My HP Officejet printer is Model #4652. I cannot print an email through my GMail on either device. What could I be doing wrong?

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  25. I am at my wit’s end. I am sure that I have the Epson iPrint Enabler enabled. I even have the Samsung print enabler enabled. I have the Epson iPrint app on the home page of my Galaxy S6.

    BUT when I go to print an email from my Gmail, it says, “Failed to change settings. Try again.”

    What settings. I have tried, and thought I did, change every setting.

    Please help before I throw the cell, and the printer, out the window.

    Thank you.

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  26. I have HP envy 5660 and Galaxy S6. I would like to print from photo gallery to regular paper tray, but it only gives me option to print to photo tray and tells me photo paper tray is empty. Anyway to print to regular paper tray from photo gallery?

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  27. Using a Canon MX530 printer, scanner, copier, fax. It is a wireless printer and everything is all set up as far as the printer is concerned. I can print wireless from my desktop computer and my spouse can print from her smartphone which is an iPhone.

    I am having issues getting anything to print from my Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone. I have the Canon plugin installed on my S6.

    Whenever I have tried to print, I get the following message …

    “Failed to change the settings. Try again.”

    Anyone with insight on how to get around this glitch?

    Thanks!

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  28. I have a galaxy s6 edge, I went through your instructions a few times, loaded the brother print service plugin but phone cannot find printer which is on. all operating on wireless network

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  29. Hi
    I tried printing multiple image at once but it didn’t have to option to. I can only print one image per turn meaning I have to print each image individually instead of all the image at one time. Is there a way around this?Thank you

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