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By my recent experience, libraries & FedEx Office & UPS Store will only print via email ☹️ Do you know otherwise? I need to print via Bluetooth.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

You can use a USB drive, so maybe if you use a sync cable for your phone that would work.

I don’t think they allow bluetooth since that usually requires pairing with the host.

UPS Store has an app to print, not sure what that involves, could be roughly the same as email.

Best solution is to call a local office and ask.

[–] jeffw 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a reason why you can’t download it on your device and email it? Sorry, just trying to understand the situation

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Because it's a certificate at the end of a work tutorial and they say do not screen capture it, you must print it directly from your phone at the end of the tutorial and you cannot close the screen until you print it or you'll have to start all over again and do the tutorial all over again. All I have is my smartphone and I do not have USB I don't have cables. It has to go directly from my phone to a printer.

Then I'm going to have to go into work and do this aren't I, it's going to be awful.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Print to PDF and print the PDF later.

It feels like saving, but it is technically different.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 12 points 1 year ago

Thank you. You are the second person to suggest this so I will try "print to PDF" then print the PDF later. Hope that works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, exactly this. You should be able to select this option from the list of printers in the print page.

[–] davidgro 15 points 1 year ago

See if there's a way to "print" to a PDF file

[–] jeffw 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There should be a way to save the file, I would think. There’s nothing on your phone browser about saving it? I would call HR for support (or ask whoever is onboarding you if it’s a new job). I’m sure they’ve had to handle this before

Edit: also who downvoted OP for that comment lol? Talk about judgmental

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you. All I've done so far is read the instructions for the tutorial, once I start the tutorial it takes an hour and if I exit out I have to start all over again so I haven't even gotten to the point where I can see whether or not I can save the file. But I will dig into this deeper and research it. I just texted my boss and asked him.

[–] fireweed 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's a work requirement then use work resources to print it. Why is this an issue?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 4 points 1 year ago

I am a new hire and it didn't occur to me to ask my boss so I just texted him. asked him if I can use a computer at work for this. our job is not computer-centric, it's an aesthetics industry so computers are not abundant there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On an iPhone, share menu, print, then share menu from the print page. This gives you a save to files option. You can then physically print the PDF at your leisure and however is convenient for you.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ok but I'm an android girl

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In chrome, you can open the three dot menu at the top right, hit Share, and then hit print, select Save as PDF, hit the yellow PDF button, then select where to save it to.

On Firefox, you can open the Share menu and save the page as a PDF directly from there.

Or at least I can on my phone

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh I'll try this. yeah it's been 2 days and I still haven't done the tutorial yet haha procrastination.

[–] XeroxCool 2 points 1 year ago

Is this in a web browser? Special app? What do they expect you to press on your phone to get it to print? There should be an option to pick pdf as a destination "device" or share>save as pdf. I have android and have made pdfs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USB probably won’t work for that anyway. If you don’t want to go into work then your only option at UPS Store would probably be to rent the computer access time and do the tutorial on their machine and then print directly, with no phone involved.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UPS Store... do the tutorial on their machine

yeah i thought about that but It's a zoom tutorial with audio, prob beyond the luxuries that ups store offers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Geez what a pain in the ass. After all that they should at least provide something to download in case any number of technical problems happens before you can print it.

[–] Smokeydope 6 points 1 year ago

If Bluetooth isnt an option WiFi most likely will work. Just make sure your device is connected to the network and hopefully the printer will show up as a network device

[–] cmbabul 6 points 1 year ago

I’ve printed from a USB drive at ups many times in the past 5 years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This tutorial thing seems like such a pointless hassle, how sure are you this job is even legit?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This job is legit. It's on par with the medical profession, dealing with vulnerable clients, so there are several levels of screening & thorough background check, and this particular training video is "Sexual harassment prevention training."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't mind me then.
I'd definitely do this on a work computer, especially with the screen-on and printing requirements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The UPS here just gives you a computer to look at, it's not super secured or anything special here, if you can get it connected, you can print on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some places make you use their app. I’m thinking the Kodak printers at places like Walmart and Staples.