How Freelancers Print Contracts, Invoices & Approvals — Without Clicking Anything

Automation is supposed to save time — not steal your afternoon. A guide on how to automatically print Gmail, Outlook etc emails with attachments.

If you're a freelancer, your inbox is your business manager. It holds:

• Stripe invoices
• Signed contracts
• Client approvals
• Scope confirmations
• NDA PDFs
• and the occasional "Hey, can you resend that?"

But when you need a paper trail, your process probably looks like this:

1. Search Gmail for “invoice”
2. Dig into threads
3. Download the attachment
4. Open the PDF
5. Hit “Print”
6. Realize you opened the wrong file
7. Do it again

Multiply that by 12–15 emails a week, and suddenly “just printing stuff” is eating hours.

It shouldn’t be this hard.

Table of Contents

• 🖨️ The 5-Minute Setup to Auto-Print Your Freelance Paperwork
  • 1. Create a Smart Mailbox for “Invoices” (or Contracts, or Clients)
  • 2. Download AutoPrint.Email and Connect Your Inbox
  • 3. Select the Right Mailbox to Watch
  • 4. Pick Your Printer — Home or Office
  • 5. Set It to Only Print Attachments
• 🧾 What Happens Next?
• 💡 Why Freelancers Love This
• 🔄 Use Cases From Real Freelancers
• 🧘‍♂️ It’s Not About Printing. It’s About Peace.
• 🖨️ Try AutoPrint.Email Free

🖨️ The 5-Minute Setup to Auto-Print Your Freelance Paperwork

AutoPrint.Email is a tiny desktop app that does one job:

Automatically print emails and their attachments.

Here’s how freelancers use it to keep their paper trail alive — without ever clicking “Print.”

1. Create a Smart Mailbox for “Invoices” (or Contracts, or Clients)

In Gmail or Outlook, set up a folder/mailbox/label called Invoices.

Then add filters for emails from:

• stripe.com
• docusign.com
• hellosign.com
• Your main clients

Every invoice, signed doc, or approval PDF lands here — already sorted.

2. Download AutoPrint.Email and Connect Your Inbox

AutoPrint.Email works with:

• Gmail
• Outlook
• Any IMAP-based email service

Just connect your account once. It runs in the background like a quiet little assistant that only cares about your inbox.

3. Select the Right Mailbox to Watch

Choose the folder you created (Invoices, Contracts, Approvals, etc).

AutoPrintEmail will monitor this mailbox 24/7 — no need to mess with filters again.

4. Pick Your Printer — Home or Office

Whether it’s your Wi-Fi-connected home printer or your office HP LaserJet, AutoPrintEmail connects to whatever printer your computer already sees.

USB or networked? Doesn’t matter.

No special drivers. No “brand ecosystem.” Just click and go.

5. Set It to Only Print Attachments

In settings:

• ✅ Check “Print email attachments”
• ✅ Check “Print message attachments only”

That way, you only print the good stuff — like the invoice PDF or contract — and skip the email body fluff.

🧾 What Happens Next?

Nothing. And that’s the point.

You’ll be working, coding, designing, or sipping coffee when — zzzzt — the printer hums to life.

That Stripe invoice? Printed.

That signed NDA? Printed.

That new contract for Q4? Already in your hand before you open the thread.

💡 Why Freelancers Love This

✅ You don’t forget to print invoices anymore

✅ No more Sunday night “paperwork panic”

✅ Your files get printed while you’re still in focus mode

✅ Your accountant loves you more

✅ You never scramble to find a signed doc again

🔄 Use Cases From Real Freelancers

🧾 Accounting Ready

One freelancer prints all Stripe invoices into a labeled folder — drops them in a filing cabinet for tax season. No effort required.

✍️ Contract Confirmation

Another sets up a Signed mailbox. Every approved scope doc and e-signature gets printed automatically.

📦 Client Approvals

Designers and photographers create a Client Notes folder to auto-print approvals and reference materials they want to annotate by hand.

🧘‍♂️ It’s Not About Printing. It’s About Peace.

This isn’t about killing trees or loving paper.

It’s about:

• Having what you need, when you need it
• Skipping distractions
• Building a system that takes care of itself

You don’t need another Zap. Or browser extension. Or Sunday admin session.

You need the paperwork to just… show up.

🖨️ Try AutoPrint.Email Free

• No limits during the trial
• No cloud storage
• No Zapier fiddling
• Just install, connect, and let it run

🖨️ → Download AutoPrint.Email

Let your inbox handle itself.

And take one more tiny task off your plate — forever.