Privacy policy

Last updated 4 November 2026

Print Ready is a Chrome extension that turns the article you're reading into a typeset PDF, ready to print. It runs entirely in your browser.

What it does with the pages you print

When you click the Print Ready toolbar button, it reads the article in the current tab, typesets it into a PDF inside your browser, saves the PDF to your Downloads folder, and opens it in a new tab so you can print it. It only reads a page when you click the button.

To include the article's pictures in the PDF, Print Ready downloads those images from the websites that host them, the same way your browser does when it shows you the page. If you're signed in to that site, your browser's existing sign-in is used, so images behind a login still appear. It fetches nothing else: the typesetting itself happens on your computer, with no server involved.

Site access

Print Ready asks once for permission to read data on websites. It uses that permission only to fetch the images in an article you've chosen to print, and to read articles shown inside a frame (such as a Claude artifact). If you decline, Print Ready still works, but images from other websites will be left out until you allow them.

What it stores

• Print history. If history is on (the default), each article you print is kept in Chrome's extension storage on your computer: its text, images, title, source URL, date, and the finished PDF, so you can reopen or reprint it. You can delete any or all of it from the history page, turn history off in the options, and uninstalling the extension removes it.
• Settings. Your print settings (paper size, two-up, margins, type size, images) are saved with Chrome's sync storage, which Chrome may sync between your own signed-in browsers.

What it doesn't do

Print Ready does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal data or browsing data. It has no accounts and contains no analytics, advertising, or tracking. The articles you print are never sent to us or to anyone else; nothing leaves your computer unless you share it yourself.

Supporting Print Ready

Print Ready is free. If you choose to support it, the support link opens a checkout page run by Stripe, and your payment is handled under Stripe's privacy policy. The extension never sees your payment details.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue on GitHub.