NotebookPrint[expr]
sends a notebook containing expr to your default printer.
NotebookPrint[notebook]
sends the specified notebook to your default printer.
NotebookPrint[notebook,"file.ext"]
saves a print‐ready form of the notebook to a file in the format indicated by the file extension ext.
sends the current evaluation notebook to your default printer.


NotebookPrint
NotebookPrint[expr]
sends a notebook containing expr to your default printer.
NotebookPrint[notebook]
sends the specified notebook to your default printer.
NotebookPrint[notebook,"file.ext"]
saves a print‐ready form of the notebook to a file in the format indicated by the file extension ext.
sends the current evaluation notebook to your default printer.
Details and Options

- If notebook is a NotebookObject, then NotebookPrint will print the complete notebook. If it is a NotebookSelection, then NotebookPrint will print just the selection.
- NotebookPrint[expr] is equivalent to NotebookPrint[CreateDocument[expr]].
- NotebookPrint uses the printing options set for the specified notebook, taking defaults from the global options set for the whole front end.
- NotebookPrint[notebook,"file.ps"] saves the PostScript form of the notebook in a file.
- NotebookPrint[notebook,"file.pdf"] saves the PDF form.
- NotebookPrint[notebook,File["file.ext"]] is also supported.
- NotebookPrint[notebook,stream,"format"] sends the print‐ready form of the notebook to a stream in the specified format.
- If the option setting Interactive->True is given, the front end will prompt the user with the standard system Print dialog.
Tech Notes
Related Guides
History
Introduced in 1996 (3.0) | Updated in 2007 (6.0) ▪ 2008 (7.0) ▪ 2012 (9.0) ▪ 2016 (11.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1996), NotebookPrint, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPrint.html (updated 2016).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1996. "NotebookPrint." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2016. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPrint.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). NotebookPrint. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPrint.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_notebookprint, author="Wolfram Research", title="{NotebookPrint}", year="2016", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPrint.html}", note=[Accessed: 17-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_notebookprint, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={NotebookPrint}, year={2016}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPrint.html}, note=[Accessed: 17-August-2025]}