How to print a paper copy or a PDF from an iPhone or iPad

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There’s an iPhone and iPad standing upright on a kitchen counter with a window on the left with bright sunlight entering. The iPhone is displaying the Print Options page with a printer name, range of two pages, doublesided printing on, and papersize letter. There's a preview of two pages on the bottom with a pictures of a corgi. The iPad has a similar print page screen, but no printer is selected.

Printing a document from the Pages app. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge

Printing is all but dead in this all-digital world, but there are still some things you can’t easily digitize: shipping labels, flyers for a bulletin board, printing out an email for your boss, and sticking prank memes in your colleagues’ cubicles. And in this era of doing almost everything on your phone, it’s good to have the option to print from it instead of needing to jump onto a computer.

Apple has succeeded in building one of the easiest methods of printing from a smartphone by getting many printer manufacturers to adopt its AirPrint wireless printing feature. Apple also has a really easy way to create PDF documents instead of a traditional print copy — if you know how to get to it. In this article, we’ll show you both.

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