Print

Print

The Print plugin adds printing tools to your Obsidian workspace. You can print the current note, a text selection, selected notes, or all notes in a folder from the command palette, the printer ribbon, or the context menu. If you like it or find it useful, please consider giving it a star on GitHub.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5882f08c-19e6-46da-b808-608b95376979

Screen recording of the plugin in use.

Features

• Print the current note: Trigger printing from the command palette, the printer ribbon, or by right-clicking a note.
• Print a selection: Print only the selected text from the active editor.
• Print selected notes: Select multiple Markdown notes in the File Explorer, then right-click to print them together.
• Print all notes in a folder: Right-click on a folder or use the command palette to print all markdown notes in that folder.
• Print on desktop and mobile: Use the system print dialog on desktop, generate an A4 PDF on iOS, or open a standalone print document in your Android browser.

You can also add a shortcut to the print action for even quicker access.

Support

If you are enjoying this plugin then please support my work and enthusiasm by buying me a coffee on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/marijnbent.

Getting Started

Install from the Community Plugin Store

1. Open Obsidian and go to Settings > Community plugins.
2. Click on Browse and search for Print.
3. Click Install to add the plugin to your Obsidian setup.
4. Once installed, enable the plugin and optionally go to the settings page.

If you print often, you probably want to add a shortcut to one or more print commands. Go to Settings > Hotkeys, search for print, and bind your preferred shortcuts.

Settings

• Print note title: Include the note title in the printout.
• Print properties: Include note properties/frontmatter at the top of the printed note.
• Font size and heading sizes: Adjust body text and heading sizes when Normalize style is enabled.
• Combine multiple notes: Remove page breaks between notes when printing selected notes or all notes from a folder.
• Treat horizontal lines as page breaks: Interpret --- separators as print page breaks.
• Debug mode: Open a separate inspection window with the generated HTML and CSS so you can troubleshoot styling issues.
• Inherit note cssclasses: Apply Obsidian note cssclasses to printed output so note-specific print CSS can carry over.
• Normalize style: Use a neutral built-in print style instead of carrying over the active Obsidian theme styling.
• Custom CSS: Enable print.css from your CSS snippets folder. The switch is shared with Appearance → CSS snippets.

Customize CSS

In the settings, you can optionally hide the title, and when Normalize style is enabled you can also adjust the font size for body text and headings.

To further customize your printouts:

1. Open Print → Advanced → Custom CSS. On desktop, use the Open snippets folder button beside the switch. You can also find the folder button under Appearance → CSS snippets.
2. Create or edit print.css in that folder. The default path is .obsidian/snippets/print.css; Print shows the correct path if your configuration folder has another name.
3. Enable Custom CSS in Print, or enable the print snippet under Appearance. Both switches control the same state. Existing enabled snippets continue to work.

Print reads the file again for each print, so saved edits apply to the next printout. If the file is missing, Print settings show how to fix it. On Windows, show file name extensions and check that the file is named print.css, not print.css.css. Obsidian lists a correctly named file as print.

The printed document's body contains the obsidian-print class. Wrap print-specific CSS in @media print or prefix it with .obsidian-print so it does not affect normal notes when the snippet is enabled in Obsidian. If you enable Inherit note cssclasses, note-level Obsidian classes will be available in the printed output as well. Theme styles for code blocks and MathJax are also carried into the print document when needed, unless you enable Normalize style to use the plugin's neutral fallback styling instead. Print output uses a 12 mm page margin by default. You can view the default styles in this file. Every individual note contains the obsidian-print-note class.

If you have trouble with the styling, enable Debug Mode to open an inspection window for the generated print document.

Mobile printing

The plugin supports Obsidian on iPhone, iPad, and Android.

• iOS and iPadOS: The plugin generates an A4 PDF and shows a Continue to print button. Tap it to open the native share sheet, then select Print. Each PDF page is an image so Obsidian styles, local images, and characters stay intact. The text in the PDF is not selectable.
• Android: The plugin saves a standalone HTML print document in the vault and opens it in your default browser. Use the browser menu to print it. Local images are included. The plugin reuses only files that it generated and does not replace your files.

Privacy and network use

The plugin has no telemetry, accounts, or plugin-owned online service. It does not upload vault content. Printing can load remote images that are already embedded in a note. Those requests go to the image host. Local images are read through the Obsidian vault API and are included as local data in portable print documents.