PrintPal
Photo prints, sized right the first time.
Drop in photos, pick a print format, then print or save a PDF. No fighting the print dialog.
4×6 photo print · borderless · Fill
Three steps. No manual.
PrintPal prints photos at the size you actually want — borderless 4×6s, a Letter page with a clean white border, or a 5×7 matted on an 8×10 for a frame. The preview and the printer use the same layout math, so what you see is exactly what prints.
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Drop in photos
Drag them in, or press ⌘⇧I to add your Photos selection.
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Pick a format
Choose a print size or paper with a border, then Fill or Fit.
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Print
Print, or save a PDF. The preview is exactly what you get.
Everything it does, nothing it doesn't.
Every common print size
Borderless 4×6, 5×7 and 8×10, Letter or A4 with a 1″ or ½″ white border, or a smaller photo centred on the page.
Matted for frames
A 5×7 on an 8×10 sheet or a 4×6 on a 5×7 — ready to drop straight into a frame with a mat.
Fill or Fit
Fill crops to the edges (drag the preview to choose the crop); Fit keeps the whole photo with extra white space.
What you see is what prints
The preview and the print output share the same layout code, measured in inches, so there are no surprises at the printer.
Straight from Apple Photos
Select photos in Photos and press ⌘⇧I (or just drag them in). Your edits come along; the temporary exports are cleaned up on quit.
HEIC, TIFF and the rest
HEIC and TIFF files are converted with macOS's built-in tools, and orientation follows each photo automatically.
Custom paper
Any paper size, with a border width or a fixed photo size — for the odd frame or the fancy paper.
Print or PDF
Send it to the printer, or save a PDF to print somewhere else. Open photos from Finder, the Dock icon or the printpal command.
Up and running in a minute.
PrintPal isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS asks you to confirm the first launch. After that it opens like any other app.
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Drag it to Applications
Open the downloaded
PrintPal-0.1.0-arm64.dmgand drag PrintPal into your Applications folder. -
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Open it once, then allow it
macOS will say it can't verify the developer. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to PrintPal.
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Prefer the terminal?
Clear the quarantine flag instead:
$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/PrintPal.app"
- macOS on Apple silicon (M1 or later)
- Any printer macOS can print to — or none, to save PDFs
