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Use Teamviewer Printing

Last Modified Jul 27, 2026

Using TeamViewer Printing, you can print documents from remote devices directly on a locally accessible printer. This allows you to print documents from remote devices on your printer without transferring files.

From the remote device, you can access the same printers (including network printers) as you would on your local device.

Remote Printing is available for Windows and macOS. Remote Printing in color is also possible.

This article applies to customers using TeamViewer Remote on Windows and macOS with a Remote Access, Business, Premium, Corporate, Tensor, or TeamViewer ONE license.

Step 1: Install the TeamViewer printer driver on the local device

The first step to setting up remote printing is to install the printer driver on your local device. For Windows and macOS devices, follow the steps below:

Open and sign in with your account on TeamViewer Remote.
Click the profile picture and select Edit profile.
On the Settings menu, go to Remote control.
Hint: If the Settings menu is collapsed, click on the side panel to expand it.
Click Remote printing.

5. On the TeamViewer printer driver, click Install.

The printer drive is now successfully installed.

Note: The native format on Windows is XPS. However, with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Microsoft has made the XPS-Viewer an optional feature. Therefore, you can select the format (PDF or XPS) for opening documents in the Settings. By default, XPS is selected. If you selected PDF but do not have a PDF reader, the document will be opened as XPS as a fallback.

When installing the printer driver, TeamViewer selects the default printer and calls it TeamViewer – [username (ID number)]. This improves general usability during the remote printing process.

Step 2: Install the TeamViewer printer driver on the remote side

It’s possible to install the printer driver via the remote session toolbar or via the device Settings. If the printer driver is already installed, move forward to Step 3.

Step 3: Activating remote printing within a session

Once the drivers have been installed, you can activate remote printing in the session toolbar:

1. Start the remote session.

2. Navigate to Extras on the session toolbar.

3. Click on Activate TeamViewer Printing.

Print documents with macOS using an XPS Viewer

If you are connecting from a macOS to a Windows machine, it might be necessary to have an XPS viewer installed, depending on the Windows and TeamViewer versions.

Install an XPS Viewer on your local device running macOS.
- Please note: Free XPS Viewer software might come with restrictions like limited page numbers. Please check for the viewer software that best fits your needs, and keep in mind that TeamViewer does not support this third-party software.
Open the file to be printed in your XPS viewer in the remote session.
Go to File ➜ Print in the XPS reader.
Choose the local printer for printing and click Print in the print dialogue.

Open documents in XPS Viewer or direct printing

Due to the nature of your local client and the device on the remote side, you may need an additional tool for printing. Each Operating System has its standard format for printing. If you connect devices running on the exact Operating System, you can directly print to any printer. If you have different Operating Systems on both sides, you might need an additional tool to start the print job.

The native format on Windows is XPS (in some versions, PDF is also supported), and the one on macOS is PDF.

columns/column	1	1	1	1	1
‎	macOS (on remote device)	Windows 7/8.1 (on remote device)	Windows 10 (<1903) (on remote device)	Windows 10 1903/1909 (on remote device)	Windows 10 (> = 2004) (on remote device)
macOS (on local device)	direct printing	direct printing	direct printing (TeamViewer 13 - 14.6) requires XPS (> =TeamViewer 14.7)	requires XPS (> = TeamViewer 14.7)	direct printing (TeamViewer > = 15.5) requires XPS (TeamViewer 14.7 -15.4)
Windows (on local device)	requires a PDF reader	direct printing	direct printing	direct printing	direct printing

XPS Reader/PDF

Due to the nature of the remote machine, an XPS reader is required to print remotely for the following connections:

Windows7/8.1 to Windows7/8.1
macOS to Windows 7 – Windows 8.1.

A PDF reader is required for the following connections:

macOS to macOS
macOS to Windows 10
Windows to macOS

Additional troubleshooting

If you’re running into issues with remote printing, we’ve put together a dedicated troubleshooting guide that walks you through the most common causes and fixes step by step. Check out the article: Troubleshoot remote printing

Important notes:

If Windows 10 Version 1903 or 1909 is installed on the remote computer:
- TeamViewer (Classic) Version 14.7 or higher: Printing documents on macOS is possible with an installed XPS viewer on the local computer. Please follow the instructions below on how to use an XPS viewer
- Any TeamViewer (Classic) version below 14.7: TeamViewer Printing does not currently work due to OS changes in Windows. This is fixed for higher Windows versions starting with build 2004.
If Windows 10 Version 2004 (or higher) is installed on the remote computer:
- TeamViewer (Classic) Version 15.5 or higher: Everything works as before once the printer driver is installed. Due to a fix by Microsoft, direct printing in connections from macOS to Windows was re-enabled.

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