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[[Image:hp_print_service_plugin.png|Installing the Android HP Print Services Plugin]]
Figure 4951-1
== Printing from Android Devices ==
Google recommends that applications which provide the ability to print content do so by placing the print option in the Overflow menu (a topic covered in some detail in the chapter entitled Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android). A number of applications bundled with Android now include “Print…” menu options. Figure 4951-2, for example, shows the Print option in the Overflow menu of the Chrome browser application:
[[Image:android_4.4_print_menu_option.png|The Print menu in the Android Chrome browsser]]
Figure 4951-2
Once the print option has been selected from within an application, the standard Android print panel will appear as illustrated in Figure 4951-3:
[[Image:android_4.4_print_panel.png|The Android Printing Panel]]
Figure 4951-3
The Android print panel provides the usual printing options such as paper size, color, orientation and number of copies. In the above case, the Print Manager has detected the presence of an HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 printer available to the device for printing via the HP Services Plugin and presented it as the default printing destination. Other print destination options may be accessed by tapping on the current printer selection to reveal a list of alternatives as shown in Figure 4951-4:
[[Image:android_4.4_printer_options.png|The Android Printing Panel listing destinations]]
Figure 4951-4
Note that in addition to Save as PDF and Google Drive options, the HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 printer is also available via Google Cloud Print allowing print tasks to be sent to the printer even when the Android device is not connected to the local network on which the printer resides.
