# Native browser printing in Tableau. - New in Tableau 2022.2

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2022-08-08
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, extensions, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/native-browser-printing-in-tableau-new-in-tableau-2022-2
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPp_Z9pdz0

I walk through the new native browser printing feature in Tableau 2022.2, demonstrating it on a data storage dashboard that includes an extension. I cover how to trigger printing, the settings available, and a couple of quirks I found with scaling in Chrome.

## Key takeaways

- Native browser printing in Tableau 2022.2 lets you print directly from Tableau Server and Cloud using Command/Ctrl P
- The feature renders extensions too, so elements like data stories print as expected
- Browser print settings let you control paper size, pages per sheet and scaling, though options vary by browser
- I couldn't find a 'fit to page' option in Chrome, so default scaling places the visualisation at native resolution onto A4
- Downloading a PDF with an unspecified paper size still gives the highest resolution output you can scale freely later

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/native-browser-printing-in-tableau-new-in-tableau-2022-2

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