Have you ever scrolled desperately to find good comments from a client last week? Have you repeatedly screenshotted your grandparents’ comments on their birthday posts?
When you finally decide to print Facebook posts as physical souvenirs or business evidence, the reality hits you hard. Blurry images look like mosaics, key comments mysteriously disappear, and the layout is chaotic ...
Don't let technical trouble tear apart your precious memories, and don't let poor printing quality damage your professional image. This article will reveal how to print Facebook posts step by step.
Table of Contents
1. Why Do You Need to Learn How to Print Facebook Posts?
2. Before You Hit Print: Legal Tips on How to Print Facebook Posts
3. Four Ways to Print Facebook Posts
(1) Print Directly from the Browser
(2) Dedicated Tool to Export PDF
(4) Copy and Paste into the Document
Why Do You Need to Learn How to Print Facebook Posts?
Real Needs
In our daily life and work, Facebook posts carry a lot of valuable and practical information. Learning to print these contents correctly can help you better save and use them:
1. Save precious memories: wedding blessing posts, friends' birthday messages...
2. Backup customer reviews: if you are a business, customers' reviews on Facebook are the most powerful word-of-mouth publicity. Print them out for promotional materials or display.
3. Retain legal evidence: posts involving disputes or infringing content sometimes need to be saved as part of legal materials.
4. For offline display: event exhibitions, brand story walls, and real social media content are more convincing than simple design drawings.
Common pain points:
If you just take a screenshot and print it, you may encounter the following problems:
1. Blurred images: The screenshot will be distorted after enlarging, and the printout will be blurry and unreadable.
2. Content is missing: If the post is very long, especially when there are many words, it is easy to miss key information in the screenshot.
3. Comment area is lost: Much wonderful contents are hidden in the comment area, and they are often not fully saved when taking screenshots.
4. Privacy leakage: Direct screenshots may expose the user's profile picture, name, and other private information. This poses a risk.
Before You Hit Print: Legal Tips on How to Print Facebook Posts
Don’t Touch the Red Line of the Platform
1. Don't grab other people's content in batches: Facebook explicitly prohibits grabbing other people's content in batches. Facebook only allows individuals to save or use it for non-commercial purposes.
2. Avoid printing "private group" or "only visible to friends" content: this information is the other party's "restricted sharing", and printing and disseminating it without permission may infringe the rights.
Self-protection Suggestions
1. Cover personal sensitive information before printing: phone number, email address, address, and more.
2. If you download and print posts for commercial purposes, you must obtain the written consent of the original publisher
Four Ways to Print Facebook Posts
Next, I will introduce several practical methods to print posts on Facebook. Each method has its applicable scenarios, advantages, and disadvantages. You can choose the most appropriate way to print posts according to your needs.
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Print Directly from Browser |
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Dedicated Tool to Export PDF |
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Long Screenshot Stitching |
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Copy and Paste into the Document |
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Next, let’s take a look at the specific steps of each method.
Print Directly from the Browser
There are three ways to print directly from the browser
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1. Ctrl+P
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2. Right click
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3. Print button in the browser menu
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Dedicated Tool to Export PDF
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1. Free plugin: Print Friendly & PDF (1) Install the plugin (2) Open the post you want to print. (3) Click the plugin icon (4) There are three ways you can choose
(5) Export high-definition PDF |
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2. Online tool: PDFmyURL.com (1) Open the post you want to print. (2) Click the Share button and then copy the link (3) Open the web: PDFmyURL.com (4) Copy the link (5) Click the option to change the setting (6) Save as PDF to print |
Long Screenshot Stitching
1. PC: Capture the entire page with FireShot
(1) Install plugin - FireShot
(2) Open the post you want to print.
(3) Click the plugin icon
(4) Some important suggestions: you'd better set delayed scrolling to prevent missing comments. Facebook loads comments gradually, so if you scroll too fast, you could miss a large portion.
- Click the plugin
- Select Capture the entire page
- Check the Delay scrolling in the pop-up window
- Set the delay to ≥ 3 seconds.
*The second and third options of Print Friendly PDF, which we mentioned earlier, are scroll screenshots.
2. Mobile: High-Resolution Screenshot via PWA Web Version
For Android:
(1) Open Chrome and visit m.facebook.com
(2) Tap the menu and select Add to Home screen
(3) Open the post in the PWA
(4) Use your phone’s screenshot function
For iPhone:
(1) Open Safari and visit m.facebook.com
(2) Tap Share and Select Add to Home Screen
(3) Use Back Tap (iOS 14+):
- Find the Settings app on your phone, click Accessibility, find the Touch option, click Back, and set it to Screenshot
- Double-tap the back of the phone and pull down to extend the screenshot
(4)If your iPhone doesn’t have the back tap function, you can enable Assistive Touch and manually stitch screenshots.
- Find the Settings app on your phone, click Accessibility, find the Touch option, and turn on Assistive Touch
- Then you need to customize the top-level menu and add a Screenshot function
Copy and Paste into the Document
1. Open the post you want to print.
2. Copy the post text
3. Right-click the image and select Save image as to download it
4. Paste the text into Word/Google Docs and insert the image
Troubleshooting about How to Print Facebook Posts
1. What’s the Best Way to Handle Collapsed Comments in a Facebook Post?
There are two ways to solve this problem:
- Manually click View all X replies before taking a screenshot
- Force expansion via using developer tools: you can open the developer tools by pressing F12 on your keyboard, then go to the Console tab and enter: document.querySelectorAll('.see_more_link').forEach(btn => btn.click());
2. Why Is My Image Showing as a Grey Placeholder?
This usually happens because Facebook uses lazy loading.
- Enter the browser address bar: chrome://flags/
- Search for lazy and set Enable lazy image loading to Disabled
- Restart the browser and refresh the page
Conclusion
Printing Facebook posts carries great meaning in our lives — preserving heartfelt memories, showcasing glowing client feedback, and more.
Throughout this guide, we've walked through different methods, practical tools, and relevant tips. Each method has its place. You can choose one way based on your needs.
