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            <title><![CDATA[How to Auto-Print Online Orders in Your Restaurant Kitchen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Stop babysitting delivery tablets. Print Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Talabat tickets straight to the kitchen printer, automatically, with no PC involved.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Auto-Print Online Orders in Your Restaurant Kitchen with automated email-to-print systems

It is the Friday dinner rush. Three tablets are buzzing on the counter, each one from a different delivery app, and someone has to keep tapping "Accept" and then "Print" on every single order. Miss one and a customer waits an extra twenty minutes. Tap the wrong thing and the ticket never reaches the kitchen.

There is a calmer way to do this. Your order emails can print themselves, straight to the kitchen printer, the second they arrive. No tablet babysitting, no browser, no staff member glued to a screen.

Here is how automatic order printing actually works, and how to set it up in about five minutes.

Table of Contents

Why printing orders by hand breaks down
What "auto-print" really means
The three ways restaurants print online orders
Setting up email-to-print in five minutes
What you can and cannot control
What you need to make it work

Why printing orders by hand breaks down

Every extra tap is a chance to lose an order. During a rush, staff are cooking, packing, and answering the phone, so the "watch the tablet and press print" job is the first thing that slips. The result is a familiar one: tickets printed late, printed twice, or not at all.

It also does not scale. One delivery platform is manageable. Add a second and a third, each with its own tablet and its own login, and the counter turns into a call center. The kitchen needs a single, reliable stream of tickets, not four separate screens to monitor.

Stressed restaurant staff overwhelmed with multiple delivery tablets during a dinner rush

What "auto-print" really means

Almost every ordering platform already sends you an order confirmation by email. Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Talabat, your own online store, your booking tool: they all email you when an order comes in.

Auto-print simply catches that email and sends it to your printer for you. Nothing changes about how you receive orders. You are just removing the human step in the middle, the one where someone has to notice the email and press print.

Illustration showing order emails seamlessly turning into printed tickets without manual intervention

The three ways restaurants print online orders

Platform tablets. Each delivery app gives you a tablet that can print to its own printer. This works, but you end up with a tablet per platform, separate hardware to maintain, and staff switching between screens.

Print from the browser. You open the order email or dashboard and hit print. Free, but entirely manual, and it falls apart the moment more than a few orders land at once.

Email-to-print. You get one private print address. You forward your order emails to it (or add it as a notification recipient), and every order prints automatically to the printer you choose. One address, any platform, no extra tablets. This is what ItJustPrints does.

Comparing restaurant printing methods like tablets, browsers, and email-to-print systems

Setting up email-to-print in five minutes

The setup is deliberately boring, which is the point:

Install the app on a phone or tablet that stays on the same Wi-Fi as your printer.
Pick your printer from the list the app finds on your network.
Copy your private print address (it looks like print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app).
Paste that address into each platform as the order-notification email, or set up a forwarding rule in your inbox so order emails go to it.

That is it. The next order that lands prints on its own. Leave the device plugged in and on the counter, and it keeps printing all shift.

Setting up email to print system easily on a phone and receipt printer in five minutes

What you can and cannot control

Once orders flow in by email, here is what the app actually gives you.

A station can hold more than one print address, and each address carries its own label and its own choice of what to print: the message body, the attachments, or both. Most order emails are body-only, so that setting matters more than it sounds. A "Bookings" address can print attachments only, while your "Orders" address prints the email itself.

Rules are a separate and simpler thing: a sender allowlist. Add orders@ubereats.com and only that sender prints. Add nothing, and everything sent to the address prints.

What the app does not do today is route. A station prints to one printer, so there is no per-sender printer, no copy count, and no paper tray. Kitchen tickets on one printer and packing slips on another means a second device running its own station, or AutoPrintEmail on a computer, which has the full rules engine.

Order emails arriving at separate labelled print addresses on one print station

What you need to make it work

You do not need a special POS or a new printer. You need a Wi-Fi or network printer that supports AirPrint or IPP (most modern receipt and office printers do), a device to run the station on, and the order emails you already receive.

If you are drowning in delivery tablets, start with one printer and one platform, point its order emails at your print address, and watch the first ticket print itself. Then add the rest.

Required equipment like Wi-Fi network printer and order emails for automated kitchen printing

Ready to stop babysitting the counter? Try ItJustPrints free and let your orders print themselves.
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            <title><![CDATA[AirPrint vs Thermal Receipt Printers for Order Tickets]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thermal receipt printer or AirPrint office printer for your order tickets? A plain comparison of speed, cost, paper size and reliability to help you choose.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Comparison between AirPrint office printers and thermal receipt printers for automated order tickets

If you are setting up automatic order printing, the first real decision is the printer itself. Should order tickets come out on a small thermal receipt printer, or on a regular AirPrint office printer?

Both can work, but there is a catch with receipt printers: most of them cannot take a job from an iPad or Android phone at all. Here is a plain comparison so you can pick the right one before you buy anything.

Table of Contents

What each type actually is
Speed and running cost
Paper size and what fits on it
Reliability and networking
Which one to choose
You can use both

What each type actually is

Thermal receipt printers print on a roll of heat-sensitive paper, the same kind you get at a supermarket till. There is no ink. They are small, fast, and built for high-volume ticketing.

AirPrint (and IPP) printers are standard Wi-Fi printers, usually inkjet or laser, that print on A4 or Letter paper. AirPrint is Apple's standard for printing over the network without drivers; IPP is the wider protocol most network printers speak. If a printer says "AirPrint" on the box, it will work over Wi-Fi with almost anything.

Illustration of a thermal receipt printer and a standard Wi-Fi office printer

Speed and running cost

Thermal wins on both for ticketing. A receipt printer spits out a ticket in a second or two and never needs ink, so the cost per ticket is basically the paper roll. For a busy kitchen doing hundreds of orders a day, that adds up in your favor.

Office printers are slower per page and cost more per print once you count ink or toner. For a handful of orders a day, or for documents you actually want on full-size paper, that cost is irrelevant.

Fast thermal receipt printing roll in a bustling kitchen environment

Paper size and what fits on it

An 80mm receipt is perfect for a compact order ticket: items, quantities, notes, order number. It tears off cleanly and clips to the rail.

A4 is better when you need more on the page: a packing slip, a booking with a full address, an invoice, or a form. If your "orders" are really documents, the office printer is the right tool.

Comparison of a narrow 80mm receipt ticket versus a full A4 packing slip document

Reliability and networking

Both are reliable once they are on your Wi-Fi and staying awake. The two things that trip people up are the same for either type: the printer going to sleep, and the printer being on a different network from the device sending the job. Keep the printer awake and on the same Wi-Fi, and tickets just flow.

Thermal printers designed for point of sale tend to be a little more forgiving of constant use. Consumer inkjets are happiest when they are not the only thing keeping the kitchen running during a rush.

Wireless network connection between devices and printers in a cozy shop

Which one to choose

Choose a thermal receipt printer if you are printing lots of short order tickets to a kitchen or counter and want the lowest cost per ticket. This is the default for most food businesses.

One thing to check before you buy: the receipt printer must support AirPrint (for an iPad) or network IPP printing (for Android). Most receipt printers don't. They speak their own command language and only work through a POS app, so a Wi-Fi model can sit on your network and never show up on the tablet. AirPrint receipt printers do exist, the Star TSP654II AirPrint being a well-known one. Look for "AirPrint" in the spec sheet, not just "Wi-Fi".

Choose an AirPrint office printer if you need full-page output such as packing slips, bookings with addresses, or invoices, or if your volume is low enough that a printer you already own does the job.

Business owner deciding between thermal and office printers for their shop

You can use both

You are not locked into one kind of printer, but be clear on how it works. A station prints to one printer, so using both means two stations: two devices, each paired with its own printer and its own print address. Point your delivery emails at the thermal station and your packing-slip emails at the office one.

There is no routing inside a single station. Rules are a sender allowlist, not a per-sender printer, and there is no copy count or paper tray. If you want one machine making those decisions, AutoPrintEmail runs on a computer and has the full rules engine.

Start with the printer that fits most of your tickets, point your order emails at your print address, and add the second one later if you need it. Set it up free with ItJustPrints.

A thermal ticket printer and an office printer, each paired with its own print station in a cafe
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Print Shopify and Online Store Orders Automatically]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sell on Shopify, WooCommerce or Etsy? Auto-print every order confirmation to your packing or receipt printer the moment it lands. No POS, no Zapier, no plugins.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Studio Ghibli aesthetic with soft, dreamy lighting, warm pastel tones, and natural or everyday-life elements. A cozy indie workshop where a receipt printer automatically prints an order slip on a wooden desk, surrounded by plants and shipping boxes. Warm pastel tones, soft morning light. Text overlay: "How to Print Shopify and Online Store Orders Automatically" in bold white on a light-colored rounded card.

You made the sale. Now the order confirmation is sitting in your inbox, and someone has to notice it, open it, and print it before it can be packed. On a busy day, that gap between "order received" and "order printed" is where things get missed.

If you sell on Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, or your own store, you can close that gap completely. The order confirmation email your store already sends can print itself, on the printer you choose, the moment it lands. No POS, no Zapier, no plugins.

Table of Contents

Why order printing gets missed
You already have everything you need
How to set it up for your store
Packing slips vs order tickets
Handling multiple stores and channels

Why order printing gets missed

Most small stores print orders by hand: open the email, hit print, go pack. It works until volume climbs or the day gets busy, and then the manual step becomes the weak link. Orders get printed late, printed twice, or buried under newer emails and forgotten.

The fix is not a bigger system. It is removing the manual step so a printed copy always appears without anyone having to remember.

A busy small business owner looking overwhelmed by manual order emails

You already have everything you need

Every store platform sends an order confirmation email when a sale happens. Shopify calls it an order notification. WooCommerce sends a "new order" email. Etsy emails you too. That email already contains the order details you need on paper.

Automatic printing just catches that email and prints it. You are not replacing your store or adding a new integration. You are pointing an email you already receive at a printer.

Store order confirmation email arriving on a phone screen

How to set it up for your store

Install ItJustPrints on a phone or tablet on the same Wi-Fi as your printer, and pick the printer.
Copy your private print address (for example print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app).
Point your store's order emails at it. In Shopify, add the address as an order-notification recipient under Settings, Notifications. In most other platforms, add it as a notification email or set an inbox forwarding rule for order emails.

That is the whole setup. The next order prints on its own, and it keeps printing as long as the station is plugged in.

Setting up automatic order printing on a tablet next to a receipt printer

Packing slips vs order tickets

For a physical-product store, you usually want the full order on A4: items, quantities, shipping address, order number, ready to drop in the box. Point your print address at an AirPrint office printer and you get clean packing slips automatically.

If you also run a counter or kitchen, you can send a short ticket to a thermal printer at the same time. Same order email, two useful outputs.

Packed shipping box with a printed packing slip on top

Handling multiple stores and channels

Selling in more than one place is where this really pays off. A Shopify store, an Etsy shop, and a wholesale inbox can all forward to the same print address, and rules decide where each one prints: retail orders to the packing printer, wholesale to the office, and so on.

One address, every channel, printed the moment the order comes in. Try ItJustPrints free and let your store orders print themselves.

Managing multiple online store sales channels from Shopify and Etsy
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            <title><![CDATA[Can an iPad Auto-Print Emails? Yes, With One Catch]]></title>
            <link>https://itjustprints.app/blog/auto-print-email-ipad</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Apple's answer is still the Mail app's Print button, one email at a time. Here's what iPadOS truly blocks, and the setup that prints forwarded email unattended.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[An iPad automatically printing emails with an AirPrint printer in a Studio Ghibli inspired cozy home office

Ask how to print email from an iPad and Apple's answer is the Mail app's Print button: open the email, tap, pick a printer, repeat for the next one. The forum threads go further and say hands-free is impossible, because iPadOS has no background print daemon and AirPrint needs a human tap.

That answer is half right, and the half it gets wrong is the half you care about.

Table of Contents

Short answer: yes, and here's the catch
What iPadOS actually blocks
How the setup works
Keeping the iPad awake
Is this an HP ePrint replacement?
When an iPad is the wrong answer

Short answer: yes, and here's the catch

An iPad can print emails automatically with an app like ItJustPrints. You forward the email to a private print address, and an iPad on the same Wi-Fi as your printer sends the job over AirPrint on its own. Nobody opens the mail. Nobody taps Print.

The catch is the one thing the forum threads got right: the app has to be the one on screen. Apple suspends hidden and locked apps, and no amount of clever engineering changes that. So the iPad becomes a station: docked, plugged in, screen on, running one app. Think order display, not tablet.

That's it. That's the whole caveat. If you can spare a device, an iPad prints your email all day without you.

An iPad station plugged in and running on a desk with a warm Ghibli ambiance

What iPadOS actually blocks

It helps to be precise about the limit, because the internet is not.

There is no background print service. Nothing on iPadOS watches your inbox and prints. True in 2020, still true now.
Apple pauses apps you can't see. Lock the screen or switch apps and the app stops working. This is the real constraint.
AirPrint itself is fine. Once an app is running and has a document, it can print to an AirPrint printer without a tap.

Put those together and the picture flips. The blocker was never printing. It was having something awake to do the printing.

Illustration representing app suspension and screen lock limits on iPadOS in a Ghibli style

How the setup works

Install ItJustPrints on the iPad and pick your printer. Any AirPrint printer on the same Wi-Fi shows up.
Copy the private print address it gives you, something like print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app.
Forward the mail you want printed to that address. A Gmail filter, an Outlook rule, or your store's order-notification settings all work.

Mail arrives, the station picks it up, the printer runs. Jobs wait on our side until the station collects them, so nothing is lost if the iPad is briefly asleep or the tray is empty.

Configuring a print app on an iPad next to a wireless printer in a cozy room

Keeping the iPad awake

Two settings do all the work:

Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never. Keep it plugged in and the screen stays on.
Guided Access pins the app so a passing thumb can't swipe it away.

An Android tablet is more forgiving here: the screen can sleep and printing keeps running. If you have both lying in a drawer, use the Android one. If you have an old iPad, it works fine as long as it stays lit.

Push wake helps too. A suspended station can be nudged awake when mail arrives, but treat it as insurance rather than the plan. The dependable setup is a device that stays on.

An iPad kept plugged in and awake on a kitchen counter with soft lighting

Is this an HP ePrint replacement?

For most people, yes. HP ePrint was the "email your printer" service a lot of small offices relied on, and HP says it isn't supported on printers released after fall 2020. The shape here is the same: an address you email, paper that comes out. The difference is it's not tied to one printer brand, and it prints from a device you already own onto the printer you already have.

Paper coming out of a wireless printer as a modern replacement for ePrint

When an iPad is the wrong answer

Be honest about it:

You need the iPad for other things. A station wants to be dedicated.
You have no spare device at all and no old phone in a drawer.
Your printer isn't on Wi-Fi and can't be.

Otherwise the "not natively possible" answer is out of date. The OS never gained a print daemon. It just turned out you don't need one. Set up a station and let the mail print itself.

A peaceful workspace showing when a dedicated print station might not be needed
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            <title><![CDATA[HP ePrint Not Working? The Replacement With No Computer]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[HP says ePrint isn't supported on printers released after fall 2020. Get "email it and it prints" back with a phone or tablet by the printer, no PC needed.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[HP ePrint replacement: banner illustration showing a phone sending emails to a printer in a cozy Ghibli style room

Your printer used to have an email address. You sent a PDF to it from your phone, walked over, and picked up the paper. No app, no driver, no computer anywhere in the story.

Then one day it stopped working, and nobody told you why.

Here's what happened, and how to get the exact same habit back without buying a PC to babysit a printer.

Table of Contents

What actually happened to HP ePrint
Why HP Smart is not the replacement
The replacement: an address, plus a device you already own
The catch: something still has to be awake
What it costs
When you want the other product instead
Getting the old habit back

What actually happened to HP ePrint

It depends on the printer, which is why it confuses people.

HP says ePrint isn't supported on printers released after fall 2020, and points those models at Print Anywhere instead (HP Support). So if your printer is newer, it never had an address to lose.

Older models may still have an ePrint address, and HP Smart is where to check it. If mail sent to it no longer prints, ePrint may not be set up on that printer anymore, and you get no error worth reading. Either way, it only ever worked on supported HP printers.

Vintage printer in a sunlit Ghibli room showing a dead ePrint settings screen

Why HP Smart is not the replacement

HP points ex-ePrint users at Print Anywhere in the HP Smart app. It prints, so it looks like an answer.

It isn't, for two reasons:

There is no address. You open the app and pick a file. A supplier, a delivery platform, or an automated order email cannot trigger a print. That was the whole point of ePrint.
HP printers only. If your next printer is a Brother or an Epson, you start over.

Anything that replaces ePrint has to accept mail from someone who isn't you. Otherwise it's just a print dialog with extra steps.

Frustrated person looking at a restricted printer app on a smartphone

The replacement: an address, plus a device you already own

The shape that actually works in 2026 is the same shape ePrint had, with the smart part moved off the printer.

You get a private print address, something like print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app.
You forward mail to it. A Gmail filter, an Outlook rule, or your store's order-notification setting all do this in about a minute.
A phone or tablet next to the printer runs the app and sends each job over AirPrint or Wi-Fi.

Mail lands, paper comes out. Nobody opens the message, nobody taps Print.

Two things this buys you that ePrint never did. Any printer works, not one brand's list. And the address belongs to a service you're paying for rather than a free feature a printer company can retire on a Tuesday.

ItJustPrints is live on the App Store and Google Play. An old iPad or Android tablet in a drawer is a perfectly good print station.

An old tablet next to a modern wireless printer printing out documents automatically

The catch: something still has to be awake

Be suspicious of anyone selling this as magic, including us.

ePrint's trick was that the printer itself was online and listening. Consumer printers don't do that anymore. So something has to sit near the printer, awake, ready to print: with us that's a phone or tablet, plugged in, running the app.

On an iPad that means screen on, Auto-Lock set to Never, ideally pinned with Guided Access. Android is easier, the screen can sleep and printing keeps going. We wrote the whole limitation up in can an iPad auto-print emails, including the parts Apple genuinely blocks.

No computer. Not no device. That's the honest version.

An active smartphone kept plugged in and awake next to a printer

What it costs

$99 a month per print station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial. Billing runs through the App Store or Google Play.

That's more than a printer app and less than the hour a week someone spends forwarding order emails to a person who prints them. If you're printing two things a day, it isn't worth it. If a counter is printing every order that comes in, the math is not close.

Small business counter with an order print station and calculator

When you want the other product instead

We make two of these, and they suit different rooms.

If there's already a computer near the printer and it stays on, AutoPrintEmail is cheaper ($14.99/month, or a one-time license) and processes everything on that machine. Your email content never routes through anyone's cloud, which matters if you're printing patient forms, legal documents, or anything you'd rather keep entirely in the building. (One caveat: its Office-to-PDF converter does send Word and Excel attachments off the machine for conversion unless you switch it off.)

ItJustPrints is the opposite trade: no computer required, but the mail you forward is received and rendered in our cloud before it reaches the station. Pick on that, not on price. The side-by-side comparison lays out the rest.

Desktop computer connected directly to a heavy-duty printer in an office

Getting the old habit back

Fifteen minutes, once:

Install the app on a spare phone or tablet and pick your printer.
Copy the print address.
Point your supplier, your store, or a mail rule at it.
Plug the device in, leave it awake, forget about it.

The thing you lost wasn't a printer feature. It was a habit: send it, and it prints. That part is easy to get back. Start a station and hand out the new address.

Happy user setting up a new print station with an app and tablet
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            <title><![CDATA[Auto-Print Emails on Android, Even With the Screen Off]]></title>
            <link>https://itjustprints.app/blog/auto-print-email-android-tablet</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An old Android tablet beside your printer prints forwarded email unattended, screen asleep. The full setup, plus the battery setting that breaks it.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[An old Android tablet acting as a print station in a cozy small business setting

There's an old Android tablet in a drawer in most small businesses. Cracked corner, three-year-old software, replaced by something newer, kept because throwing away a working tablet feels wrong.

That tablet is a print station. Plug it in next to your printer, and email that lands in your inbox comes out on paper without anyone touching anything.

Table of Contents

Android is the better print station, and here's why
What you need
The setup, start to finish
Battery saver is the one thing that breaks it
What actually stops printing
Android or iPad?
What it costs
When you want the desktop version instead

Android is the better print station, and here's why

We ship on both platforms, so this isn't brand loyalty. Android just wins this specific job.

On an iPad, the screen has to stay on. Apple suspends hidden and locked apps, full stop, so an iPad station sits there glowing all day with Auto-Lock set to Never. It works. We wrote up exactly what iPadOS blocks if you want the detail.

On Android, the screen can go to sleep and printing keeps running. The app stays the one on screen, the display goes dark, jobs keep landing on paper. A dark tablet on a counter looks like a dead tablet. That's the point.

An old Android tablet resting on a shop counter with screen off while printing

What you need

Three things, and you probably have all three:

An Android phone or tablet that can stay plugged in beside the printer. Retired hardware is ideal.
A printer on the same Wi-Fi that speaks IPP. If your phone can already print to it from the share sheet, you're fine.
An email address you can forward from. Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, your platform's order notifications, whatever sends you the thing you keep printing by hand.

No PC. No server. No print driver hunt.

A retired Android tablet, Wi-Fi router, and printer ready for setup on a desk

The setup, start to finish

Install ItJustPrints from Google Play on the tablet.
Pick your printer. Anything on the same Wi-Fi shows up in the list.
The app hands you a private print address that looks like print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app.
Forward mail to it. All of it, or just the senders that matter, using a Gmail filter or an Outlook rule.
Tap Allow when Android asks about battery optimisation. This one matters, see below.

Then leave it alone. Mail arrives, the station picks it up, the printer runs. Jobs queue on our side until the station collects them, so an empty paper tray or a brief Wi-Fi drop doesn't lose anything, it just delays it.

Hands holding an Android tablet displaying a setup screen for automated email printing

Battery saver is the one thing that breaks it

If prints stop arriving overnight and start again the moment you unlock the tablet, this is why. Android aggressively puts apps to sleep to save battery, which is great on a phone in your pocket and useless on a device wired to the wall.

The first time you finish setup, Android asks to let the app ignore battery optimisation. Tap Allow. If you missed the prompt, the Station screen shows a "Battery saver can stop prints" card, tap that instead.

Samsung is the fussiest and can be set by hand: Settings → Battery → App battery usage → ItJustPrints → Unrestricted.

Android settings screen showing battery optimization options in Studio Ghibli style

What actually stops printing

Short list, and none of it is mysterious:

Swiping the app out of recent apps. This kills the station. Don't do it.
Leaving another app on screen for a long stretch. Android shows an "ItJustPrints is running" notification, tap it any time and the queue catches up instantly.
An empty tray. The queue waits. Refill and it drains.

Notice what's not on that list: locking the screen. That's the Android advantage. The full breakdown per platform lives in keep the app open.

A printer successfully outputting order receipts in a small cafe environment

Android or iPad?

| | Android | iPhone / iPad |
|---|---|---|
| Screen can sleep | Yes | No, needs Auto-Lock off |
| Looks "off" on a counter | Yes | No, stays lit |
| Battery setting to change | One, on first run | None |
| Prints unattended | Yes | Yes |

If you have both in the drawer, use the Android one. If you only have the iPad, it's a perfectly good station, it just glows.

Comparison between Android and iPad print stations in a hand-drawn notebook style

What it costs

$99 a month per print station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial. Billing runs through Google Play, so it sits with your other app subscriptions.

One station covers one printer at one location. Two counters, two stations.

Small business owner smiling while checking subscription on a tablet

When you want the desktop version instead

If there is a computer at that location and you'd rather your mail never left it, AutoPrintEmail does the same job locally: a desktop app watches the inbox and prints on the machine itself, so email content never passes through our cloud — bar Word and Excel attachments, which its converter sends over for PDF conversion unless you turn that off.

That's the honest trade. ItJustPrints receives and renders your forwarded mail in our cloud, which is what lets it work with no computer at all. AutoPrintEmail keeps everything on your machine, and needs that machine awake.

Pick on the trade-off, not the price. And if what you're really replacing is a printer's dead email address, start with the ePrint replacement guide.

Go find the drawer tablet. It has a job now.

A desktop computer and local printer setup in a quiet office space
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            <title><![CDATA[Turn an Old Android Phone Into a Print Server]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An old Android phone can share a USB printer or print your orders as they arrive. These are two different jobs. Here's which one you need and how to set it up.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[An old Android phone repurposed as a wireless print server in a cozy shop setting

Somewhere in your shop there's an old Android phone. Cracked screen, battery that lasts till lunch, replaced two upgrades ago. Search what to do with it and you'll find the same idea everywhere: turn it into a print server.

Good idea. But "print server" means two different jobs, and the apps that do one don't do the other. Pick the wrong one and you'll spend an evening on a setup that was never going to print your orders.

Table of Contents

Two jobs called "print server"
Job one: sharing a USB printer
Job two: the phone that prints your orders
Why an old phone is perfect for this
The one setting that breaks it
What it won't print to
What it costs

Two jobs called "print server"

Job one: share a printer. You have a printer that only connects by USB, and you want your laptop and phone to reach it over Wi-Fi. The old phone sits between them and passes jobs along.

Job two: print what arrives. Orders, bookings, labels and invoices land in your email all day, and you want them on paper without anyone opening anything. The old phone sits by the printer and prints them as they come in.

Most guides only cover job one. Most shops actually want job two.

Illustration of sharing a USB printer versus automatically printing incoming emails on Android

Job one: sharing a USB printer

Android has no print server built in. To share a USB printer you need a USB OTG adapter, a phone that supports it, and an app that turns the phone into a relay. NetPrinter and PrinterShare are the two people usually land on.

It works, with caveats. Driver support depends on the app and your printer model, and the phone has to stay awake and connected.

If that's your job, there's also a boring answer that often beats the phone: a small USB print server box that plugs into the printer and your router. No battery, no app updates.

We don't do job one. ItJustPrints needs a printer that's already on your Wi-Fi.

Connecting a USB printer to an Android phone using an OTG adapter

Job two: the phone that prints your orders

This is the one that changes your day. The phone becomes a print station:

Install ItJustPrints on the old phone.
Pick your printer. Anything on the same Wi-Fi that speaks IPP shows up. If the phone can already print to it from the share menu, you're set.
The app gives you a private print address, something like print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app.
Send email there. Forward your order notifications, or paste the address straight into your shop's notification settings.

Then plug the phone in and leave it. Email arrives, the phone prints it. Nobody taps Print.

The full walkthrough, with screenshots of each step, is in auto-print emails on Android.

Android phone automatically printing orders over Wi-Fi in a small business

Why an old phone is perfect for this

It's a job that wants a cheap, boring device:

The screen can sleep. On Android, printing keeps running with the display off. A dark phone on a shelf is exactly what you want.
It never leaves the counter. No one walks off with it, no one installs games on it.
It's already paid for. Its only job now is staying plugged in.

Any phone from the last five years or so is fine. Speed doesn't matter. Wi-Fi and a charger do.

An older smartphone plugged into a charger resting peacefully on a shop shelf

The one setting that breaks it

Android puts apps to sleep to save battery. Great in your pocket, useless on a phone wired to the wall.

When setup finishes, Android asks whether ItJustPrints may ignore battery optimisation. Tap Allow. If prints stop overnight and come back the moment you pick up the phone, that's the setting. Some Samsung phones need it set by hand, under the app's battery settings, as Unrestricted.

And don't swipe the app away from your recent apps. That stops the station.

Adjusting battery optimization settings on an Android smartphone screen

What it won't print to

Be honest with yourself about the printer before you start:

USB-only printers. The phone talks to printers over Wi-Fi. If your printer has no network connection, see job one, or plug it into a print server box first.
Bluetooth receipt printers. Most cheap receipt printers speak their own language over Bluetooth, not the network printing standard. They won't show up.

An ordinary Wi-Fi office printer works. So does a network receipt printer that supports IPP.

Incompatible USB and Bluetooth printers next to a smartphone

What it costs

ItJustPrints is $99 a month per station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial through Google Play. One station is one phone and one printer.

Have a computer that's already on all day next to the printer? Then the old phone isn't needed: AutoPrintEmail does the same job on Windows or Mac.

Got the phone? Turn it into a print station.

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            <title><![CDATA[How to Print Shipping Labels Automatically, No PC]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Stop tapping Print for every parcel. Send label PDFs to a print address and a phone or tablet by your Wi-Fi label printer prints each one as it lands, no PC.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[How to print shipping labels automatically without a PC using a wireless setup

Buy the label. Download the PDF. Open it. Tap Print. Pick the printer. Notice it's about to print on Letter paper. Fix it. Print. Do it again for the next order.

That's ten taps a parcel, and in November it's a few hundred taps a day. Here's how to get it down to one, with no computer at the packing table.

Table of Contents

What "automatic" can actually mean
The setup: a print address for labels
The printer: it has to be on Wi-Fi
The one thing to test: the label's direction
Making it fully hands-free
What it costs

What "automatic" can actually mean

Shipping tools are great at buying labels and terrible at printing them for you. Pirate Ship gives you a PDF download or a share link. ShipStation downloads a PDF to your browser. Either way, the label ends up as a file, and the file still needs someone to print it.

So the fix isn't a new shipping tool. It's a printer that prints a PDF the moment it receives one.

Frustrated person looking at a laptop while managing shipping labels

The setup: a print address for labels

ItJustPrints turns a phone or tablet next to your printer into a print station with its own email address. Anything sent to that address prints. Labels are the cleanest use of it there is:

Put the station by your label printer and give it a print address called Labels.
Set that address to print attachments only, with the message body turned off. Now an email with a label attached prints the label and nothing else.
When you buy a label, send the PDF to the Labels address. From a phone that's the share button, then Mail. From a laptop, attach and send.

The label is on the printer before you've picked up the box. One of our first customers runs their shop exactly like this: 6x4 label PDFs, sent from Gmail, printing at the packing table with no one touching the station.

Tablet next to a label printer acting as a print station with email address

The printer: it has to be on Wi-Fi

This is where most setups break. A lot of popular label printers connect by USB only, and a phone or tablet can't reach those.

You want a label printer that joins your Wi-Fi and supports AirPrint (for an iPad) or network printing (for Android). The Rollo Wireless is one: Wi-Fi, AirPrint, and 4x6 labels, which is the size most carriers use.

Already have a Wi-Fi office printer? It works too. You'll be printing labels on sheets and cutting them, which is fine at low volume and painful at high.

Wireless label printer connected via Wi-Fi printing a shipping label

The one thing to test: the label's direction

Label PDFs come in two shapes. Some are 4x6 portrait, the way a label printer feeds. Some are 6x4 landscape, which is what you get when you export a label from a document app.

Landscape labels can come out turned or shrunk, depending on how your printer handles the paper it has loaded. So before your first busy day, send one test label and look at it:

Is it the right way round?
Does it fill the label, edge to edge?

If it doesn't, check your shipping tool's label settings for a 4x6 portrait option. Most have one. Fixing it once at the source beats fiddling with the printer every day.

Checking label print direction and orientation before busy packing days

Making it fully hands-free

The step that's left is sending the PDF. Two ways to get rid of it:

If your tool emails labels to you, set an email filter that forwards those messages to the Labels address. Then you never touch it. Our guide to forwarding from Gmail shows how to forward only one sender.
If it doesn't, sharing the PDF from your phone is one tap. Still a lot better than ten.

Keep the station plugged in. On an iPad the screen stays on with the app open. On Android the screen can sleep and labels still print. The details are in keep the app open.

Fully automated packing station with labels printing hands-free

What it costs

ItJustPrints is $99 a month per station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial through the App Store or Google Play. One station drives one printer, so a label printer and an office printer are two stations.

Packing at a desk with a computer that's on all day anyway? AutoPrintEmail runs on Windows or Mac and does the same job.

Ready before the November rush? Set up a label station.

Small business owner calculating costs at a cozy packing desk
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            <title><![CDATA[Print WooCommerce Orders Automatically on a Tablet]]></title>
            <link>https://itjustprints.app/blog/print-woocommerce-orders-automatically</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Add one address to WooCommerce's New order email and every order prints itself on your Wi-Fi printer from a tablet. No plugin, no computer left running all day.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Studio Ghibli style banner showing an order ticket printing automatically from a tablet in a cozy cafe

A WooCommerce order comes in. Your phone buzzes. You open the admin, find the order, hit print, wait for the dialog, pick the printer. Then the next one comes in.

There are plugins for this, but many of them quietly need a print client running on a computer, or a cloud print service on top, to actually reach your printer. There's a simpler route, and it uses an email WooCommerce already sends you.

Table of Contents

The email you already have
Step 1: add a print address to the New order email
Step 2: the station
Step 3: make it print like a ticket
Which printer works
Keep strangers off your printer
Before Black Friday, not during it

The email you already have

Every time someone checks out, WooCommerce sends a New order email to the store admin. It has the order number, the items, quantities, options, the customer's address and their note. In other words, it's already an order ticket.

All you need is for that email to come out of a printer by itself.

A phone displaying a new WooCommerce order email notification with item details

Step 1: add a print address to the New order email

ItJustPrints gives a phone or tablet beside your printer its own private email address. Anything sent there prints.

In WooCommerce, go to Settings, then Emails, and open New order. The Recipient(s) field takes a comma-separated list, so keep your own address and add the print address after it:

you@yourshop.com, print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app

Save. That's the whole integration. No plugin, no API key, nothing installed on your site.

Laptop showing WooCommerce settings and email recipient configuration field

Step 2: the station

Put the phone or tablet next to the printer, plugged in:

Android is the easy one. The screen can go dark and orders still print.
iPad works too, but the app has to stay on screen with Auto-Lock off. Apple pauses hidden apps.

The station picks up each order email and sends it to your Wi-Fi printer. If the printer's out of paper or the Wi-Fi drops for a minute, orders wait in the queue and print when it's back. Nothing gets skipped.

Tablet and Wi-Fi receipt printer setup on a cafe counter ready for orders

Step 3: make it print like a ticket

Each print address has its own settings, so set this one up for orders:

Print message body: on. WooCommerce's order email is the body, not an attachment.
Paper size: Letter or A4 for packing slips on an office printer, or Receipt 80mm for a kitchen-style ticket. The receipt sizes drop the margins to zero so the whole roll width gets used.

Place a test order (turn on a manual payment method like Cash on delivery for it) and look at what comes out.

A freshly printed receipt ticket showing customer order details and items

Which printer works

Any Wi-Fi office printer that supports AirPrint or network printing. That covers most printers sold in the last decade.

Receipt printers are trickier. Most of them talk to tablets through a POS app, not normal printing, so they never show up. You need one that supports AirPrint or network printing, such as the Star TSP654II AirPrint. We go through the options in iPad receipt printers.

Compatible Wi-Fi office printer and receipt printer on a shelf

Keep strangers off your printer

Your print address is private, but email addresses leak. Add a rule so the station only prints mail from your store's sending address. Anything else is dropped before it reaches the queue.

Digital lock icon floating above a receipt printer representing secure print filtering

Before Black Friday, not during it

Set this up in a quiet week. Run a few test orders through, check the paper, and leave the station plugged in. On the busiest day of the year you want it to be the one thing you don't think about.

ItJustPrints is $99 a month per station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial through the App Store or Google Play.

Running your shop from a computer that's on all day anyway? AutoPrintEmail does this on Windows or Mac. On Shopify instead? Here's printing Shopify orders automatically.

Store owner peacefully preparing their receipt station before a busy holiday rush

Set up your order station.
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            <title><![CDATA[iPad Receipt Printer for Online Orders, No POS Needed]]></title>
            <link>https://itjustprints.app/blog/ipad-receipt-printer-online-orders</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Most receipt printers never show up in the iPad's print list. Here's why, which ones do (AirPrint models), and how to print online orders on one with no POS.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[An iPad and a thermal receipt printer setup in a cozy shop with soft lighting

You bought a receipt printer for the iPad. It's on the Wi-Fi, the test page came out fine, and then you open an order email, tap Print, and the printer isn't in the list.

You didn't set it up wrong. Most receipt printers were never built to show up there. Here's why, which ones do, and how to get online orders printing on one from an iPad, with no POS system.

Table of Contents

Why your receipt printer doesn't show up
The receipt printers that do work
Printing online orders without a POS
The iPad catch
Thermal or office printer?
What it costs

Why your receipt printer doesn't show up

The iPad's Print button only lists AirPrint printers. AirPrint is Apple's standard for printing over Wi-Fi without drivers.

Most receipt printers don't speak it. They talk to the iPad through a POS app that has their maker's code built in. Take one of the most common: the Epson TM-m30III is Wi-Fi capable but not AirPrint compatible. It prints from POS apps and Epson's own utilities, and nowhere else.

That makes printers like it great inside a POS app, and invisible to everything else on the iPad. Before you buy, look for the word AirPrint on the spec sheet. If it isn't there, assume the printer only works through apps.

A frustrated person looking at an iPad screen missing printer options in a warm room

The receipt printers that do work

The Star TSP654II AirPrint was the first receipt printer to get Apple's AirPrint certification. It takes 80mm and 58mm rolls, connects by Ethernet or Wi-Fi, and shows up in the iPad's print list like any office printer.

Check the exact model name when you buy. The AirPrint version is sold as its own model, separate from the regular TSP654II.

Don't need a ticket? A normal AirPrint office printer is the other option. Full-page packing slips, no special paper.

AirPrint compatible receipt printer printing out a crisp paper ticket on a wooden desk

Printing online orders without a POS

Here's the part a POS would normally do: notice a new order and print it. Without one, use the email your store already sends.

ItJustPrints turns the iPad into a print station with its own email address:

Install ItJustPrints on the iPad and pick the AirPrint receipt printer.
Set the print address's paper size to Receipt 80mm (or 58mm for narrow rolls). That drops the margins to zero, so the whole roll width gets used.
Send your order emails to the print address. Most platforms let you add it straight to the new-order notification, like WooCommerce and Shopify.

Each order prints as it arrives, no tap needed.

An iPad receiving online orders and printing receipts automatically without a POS system

The iPad catch

Apple pauses apps that aren't on screen. So the iPad station keeps ItJustPrints open, plugged in, with Auto-Lock set to Never. Guided Access locks it to the one app if staff borrow it.

Think of it as an order display rather than a tablet. The full list of what keeps it printing is in keep the app open.

If you have an old Android tablet too, it's the easier station: the screen can sleep and printing keeps running. It still needs a printer it can reach over the network.

An iPad plugged into a charger running an order printing app continuously on a shop desk

Thermal or office printer?

Short version:

Receipt printer: lots of short tickets, kitchen or counter, cheapest per ticket.
Office printer: packing slips, addresses, invoices, anything you want on a full page.

We compared them properly in AirPrint vs thermal receipt printers. One station drives one printer, so if you want both, that's two stations.

Comparison between a compact thermal receipt printer and a standard office printer

What it costs

ItJustPrints is $99 a month per station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial through the App Store.

Already running a POS on the iPad? Use its printing; that's what it's for. ItJustPrints is for the orders that arrive by email and never touch your POS.

Set up the iPad station.

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            <title><![CDATA[Auto-Print Square Online Orders Without Square Hardware]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Square auto-prints online orders only through its POS app and supported printers. Here's how to print every order on any Wi-Fi printer from a tablet instead.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Auto-print Square online orders without special hardware using a tablet and Wi-Fi printer

Square Online can print your orders automatically. The catch is how: it prints from the Square POS app, running on an iPad or Square Register at the counter, to a printer Square supports.

If that's your setup, use it. If it isn't, because you run the shop from your phone, or your printer is an office printer Square doesn't list, there's another way, and it starts with an email Square already sends you.

Table of Contents

How Square's own auto-print works
The email Square sends on every order
Turn the email into a printed ticket
Which printer you can use
Make it reliable
What it costs

How Square's own auto-print works

Square prints online orders through printer stations in the POS app. You pick a printer station, switch on Online Order Tickets, and turn on Automatically Print New Orders. Square's guide walks through it.

For that to work, three things need to be true:

The Square POS app is open on a device at the counter.
The printer is one Square supports, connected by USB, Bluetooth or Ethernet.
The printer and the device are on the same network.

Great if you already run Square POS. A lot of setup if all you wanted was the online orders on paper.

Square POS app running on a tablet at a shop counter connected to a receipt printer

The email Square sends on every order

Square Online can email you every time an order comes in. In your Square Dashboard, go to Channels, then Square Online, then Settings, then Notifications, and turn on New order emails. You can send them to up to three addresses per location.

That email has what a kitchen or packing table needs: the items, options, pickup or delivery time, and the customer's details. It just needs to come out of a printer by itself.

Dashboard view showing notification settings for new order emails from Square Online

Turn the email into a printed ticket

ItJustPrints gives a phone or tablet next to your printer its own email address. Anything sent there prints.

Install ItJustPrints on a spare iPad or Android tablet and pick your Wi-Fi printer.
Copy the print address it gives you, something like print-xxxx@in.itjustprints.app.
In the Square Online notification settings, add the print address as one of your three emails. Keep your own address there too.

Place a test order. It prints on its own, usually within seconds of the email landing.

Tablet setup printing an order ticket instantly via cloud print service

Which printer you can use

Any Wi-Fi printer that supports AirPrint or network printing. That covers most office printers, so a full-page ticket with the customer's address on it costs you nothing extra.

For narrow tickets, you need a receipt printer that supports AirPrint, like the Star TSP654II AirPrint. Most receipt printers don't, because they're built to work through POS apps. We explain how to tell them apart in iPad receipt printers.

Set the print address's paper size to match: Letter or A4 for an office printer, Receipt 80mm for a ticket printer.

Various Wi-Fi office printers and receipt printers on a wooden office desk

Make it reliable

Keep the station plugged in. On Android the screen can sleep and orders still print. On an iPad, keep the app open with Auto-Lock off.
Only print Square's emails. Add a rule so the station only prints mail from Square's sending address. Anything else is dropped.
Check spam once. Square notes that some email providers file these notifications as spam. The print address isn't affected, but your own copy might be.

Tablet plugged into power and set up for reliable automated printing

What it costs

ItJustPrints is $99 a month per station, or $999 a year, with a 14-day free trial through the App Store or Google Play. No Square hardware needed.

Running Square from a computer at the counter? AutoPrintEmail does the same job on Windows or Mac. Still choosing a platform? AutoPrintEmail compared Square Online and Shopify Starter for small shops.

Set up your order station.

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