Google Chrome: Add a Print Button to the Bookmarks Bar
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Google Most browsers have a print button so you don’t have to hunt for the correct menu selection or rely on remembering the keyboard combination. You can add a print button to your Bookmarks bar, making it easily accessible any time you need it.
1. Open Chrome.
2. Right-click the Bookmarks bar and select Add Page.
3. In the Name textbox, input the word Print.
4. In the URL textbox, input the following:
javascript:window.print()
5. Make sure that the Bookmarks bar folder is selected and click OK.
or just drag this link to your Bookmarks bar: Print.
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crispinr said on October 4, 2008
and Print Preview/ :)
Effem Tee said on November 5, 2008
Thank you. Very helpful. Now, how about a Print Preview?
Vadimir said on November 14, 2008
How about print selection :-)
cindy said on November 29, 2008
Can I add a save button, too?
Hunter said on December 7, 2008
Great tip! Thanks!
Maarvin Gold said on December 9, 2008
I can’t this to work
kscience said on February 21, 2009
too many windows entitled users it looks like…
kscience said on February 21, 2009
You nee to put in a space between the text and the ( ) apostrophes……
srlmcb said on June 24, 2009
Thanks! that helps print a page! but what if I just want to print out a section of the page. On my printer box I usually can select this on selection.
Lygia said on July 29, 2009
Yehhhh!
And… Can you see a page before printing?
Thanks!
Anonymous said on September 21, 2009
Thanks for the tip. Works as advertised!
Anonymous said on November 20, 2009
You can then add that same PRINT link to your other links that you may have created and have created a folder by dragging and dropping it to that folder (if any).
Anonymous said on November 30, 2009
it didn’t work..help!!
Evelyn said on March 1, 2010
Thanks, I still don’t understand why google would leave something so important out like that
Name said on May 2, 2010
Wonderful . I have spent a long time trying to add an print icon to the tool bar . I just dragged your PRINT link to my tool bar and Hey Presto it works! Thanks, sanity now restored.
Valerie said on May 22, 2010
Thank you for posting this. It worked for me, but doesn’t have the capability to print SELECTION.
Printing in Leeds said on June 1, 2010
I guess we can get the print view before printing in chrome.
Steve said on June 6, 2010
WELL DONE – Its something that needed to be known by everyone- Thanks so Much !!!
Steve
Wocaisse said on July 1, 2010
That was simple and easy to do. and it works. Thanks so much for the hint.
TryTohelp said on July 8, 2010
javascript:(function(){if(window['ppw']&&ppw['bookmarklet']){ppw.bookmarklet.toggle();}else{window._pwyl_home=’http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/’;window._pwyl_pro_id=null;window._pwyl_bmkl=document.createElement(’script’);window._pwyl_bmkl.setAttribute(‘type’,'text/javascript’);window._pwyl_bmkl.setAttribute(’src’,window._pwyl_home+’static/compressed/pwyl_bookmarklet_10.js’);window._pwyl_bmkl.setAttribute(‘pwyl’,'true’);document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0].appendChild(window._pwyl_bmkl);}})();
TryTohelp said on July 8, 2010
copy the javascript above and paste it as a link in a new link in your booksmark bar or Google PrintWhatYouLike for the lazy among us, (Me included)
Lyndseyr82 said on August 9, 2010
just right click on your mouse on the page you want to print and a box will pop up, select print and hey presto !
Fizerfive said on August 22, 2010
Thank you! Simple and very convenient!
Deadlybonds1 said on August 30, 2010
Omg thanks it was really helpful at a last minute work.
Huntingtonunderground said on September 17, 2010
This ROCKS, thank you!
Abc said on November 18, 2010
Trytohelp – your a star! Works a treat
LiLev said on November 23, 2010
Thank you! You should start with the “drag to your bookmark option” I had already done the longer way before I saw the simple one :)
Dragon said on December 3, 2010
OMG chrome sucks I cant believe they left a print button out geesh google sucks
Guntis Liepins said on January 12, 2011
It is neither simple, not convenient. Fact that me ( user ) has to search internet , enter jsavascript code where addresses are supposed to be, then drag that code somwhere to print out page is absolutely major usability flop.
Nikky said on March 2, 2011
Freakin A! How do I get a Bookmark Bar? I have right clicked on everything I see at the top of my Chrome and nada…I have tried to add a bookmark with the javascript and it doesn’t save it so I can use it later. Am I supposed to commit it to memory? Major step backward Google. Highly disappointing for a brand known to be clean and user friendly you have made me have to Google my Google. Thought I was annoyed when I had to play hide and seek to find how to change my password on Gmail…that was nothing! Arggg!
Daniels558 said on June 13, 2011
Brilliant, now I can print on Google Chrome at last. Thank you
Lakshmi Shyam Sundar said on July 25, 2011
Thanks For this Command ..
Siddhesh said on December 26, 2011
Helped a lot! thanks!