Summary

Here’s some instructions to be able to print from your ReMarkable. It in essence makes it so that your printer has an “email to print” capability and you just send from your remarkable to your printer email address.

Note: You’ll need a need gmail address and a dedicated computer to watch your inbox. (Like maybe a Raspberry Pi sitting around)

Steps

1. Create a new gmail address. Instructions for you.
2. Turn on two factor authentication for your gmail address. Instructions for you.
3. Get an app password for your gmail address. Instructions for you.
4. On your computer, open a terminal and run the following commands

pip install imaplib2 pyzmail36

imaplib2 checks your mailbox. pyzmail36 handles attachments.

1. Create a python script with the following code. (fill in the parts outlined in the code)

import imaplib
import email
import os
import subprocess

# ==== SETTINGS ====
EMAIL_USER = "YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS"
EMAIL_PASS = "YOUR_APP_PASSWORD_INCLUDE_SPACES"   # Gmail App Password
IMAP_SERVER = "imap.gmail.com"
SAVE_DIR = "/tmp/email_prints"
PRINTER_NAME = "YOUR_PRINTER_NAME"

# Optional: Only accept emails from these senders
ALLOWED_SENDERS = {"[email protected]"}  # Change this, or set to empty {} for no restriction

# Allowed file extensions
ALLOWED_EXT = {".pdf", ".txt", ".docx", ".png", ".jpg"}

# Make sure save dir exists
os.makedirs(SAVE_DIR, exist_ok=True)

def save_attachments(msg):
    """Save valid attachments to SAVE_DIR"""
    attachments = []
    for part in msg.walk():
        if part.get_content_disposition() == 'attachment':
            filename = part.get_filename()
            if filename:
                ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1].lower()
                if ext in ALLOWED_EXT:
                    filepath = os.path.join(SAVE_DIR, filename)
                    with open(filepath, "wb") as f:
                        f.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
                    attachments.append(filepath)
    return attachments

def print_file(filepath):
    """Send file to printer"""
    print(f"Printing {filepath}...")
    subprocess.run(["lp", "-d", PRINTER_NAME, filepath])

def check_mail():
    """Check Gmail inbox for new messages and print attachments"""
    mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_SERVER)
    mail.login(EMAIL_USER, EMAIL_PASS)
    mail.select("inbox")

    result, data = mail.search(None, '(UNSEEN)')
    if result == "OK":
        for num in data[0].split():
            result, msg_data = mail.fetch(num, "(RFC822)")
            if result != "OK":
                continue
            msg = email.message_from_bytes(msg_data[0][1])

            # Check sender
            from_addr = email.utils.parseaddr(msg["From"])[1]
            if ALLOWED_SENDERS and from_addr not in ALLOWED_SENDERS:
                print(f"Skipping email from {from_addr}")
                continue

            # Save and print attachments
            attachments = save_attachments(msg)
            for filepath in attachments:
                print_file(filepath)

            # Mark as read
            mail.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\\\Seen')

    mail.logout()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    check_mail()

1. Create a cronjob that runs this code every minute. (Note: Your paths and python file might be a little different)

crontab -e
* * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/yourusername/emailtoprint.py

1. Now on your ReMarkable when you find something you want to print, simply hit Share → Send by email and be sure to send it to the gmail address you created.