MailChimp is brilliant for email newsletters but…
MailChimp is undoubtedly my favourite Newsletter software. Im sure the folks at MailChimp would rather we saw them as an “integrated marketing platform”, but it certainly does a top job with email newsletters.
It just works. You can insert signup forms into your website, to save your admin team from having to transcribe printouts and emails – Nice. The system produces meaningful stats for the email campaigns you send out.
How to print your MailChimp Newsletter
All good right up to the point that you want a nicely printed version of your newsletter to hang on the Office or Club notice board.
Doing a ‘clean-skin’ print isn’t built-in.
I battled trying to find a solution to printing MailChimp emails for ages, then in a rare moment of brilliance I realised how to do this easily.
This technique removes the header and footers and other pesky content designed for an email that you don’t want in your printed version.
Here’s my quick and dirty solution to turning that nasty looking MailChimp email into a print-worthy document:
1. Find your campaign URL
This is the link to the MaliChimp email campaign. I find mine in the Campaign Details tab. It starts with https://mailchi.mp/...
2. Display it in a browser
Click on your Campaign URL, or paste it into your browser to display your email as HTML. This will also display along with those pesky Subscribe, Past issues Translate and RRS buttons at the top. At the page bottom the MailChimp footer is also displayed
3. Display the page code
Don’t fear! We don’t need to understand the code; the browser will help us find the elements we need to remove.
I use Chrome, so if you are using another browser else you’ll need to translate these instructions to suit your browser.
Right-mouse click on the Subscribe button, then click Inspect
We’re now looking at the code that generates that button.
4. Remove the unwanted page elements
In my world, a Chrome panel opens with the page HTML code for the subscribe button highlighted in a grey background – see below
Click the 3 dot menu on the left-hand side, then select Delete Element
Hazar! The Subscribe button disappears from your browser display!
Repeat the process for the other unnecessary header and footer elements until you have a clean HTML page
5. ‘Print’ to convert your cleaned page into a PDF
Now we have a cleaned page we just need to convert it into a PDF document.
Then click Ctrl P (windows) or Cmd P (for Mac) to force the Print dialog to display
In the Print dialog Destination, select Save as PDF
The browser will transform and then save your de-cluttered web page as a PDF. All the ugly elements you don’t want to print are gone!
Now you can then print that PDF to your printer for a clean version of your MailChimp email.
Save the PDF so you can email it later as a cleaned version of your newsletter.
Voila – The Quick and Dirty way to create a clean printable PDF of your MailChimp newsletter

An online marketer with deep experience in Sales & Marketing as well as technical skills accumulated over the many years of working in this industry. He has been knee-deep in websites and online marketing since the mid 80’s.
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Hi Peter
Great content – thank you! Would it be possible to add page numbers in the code, or do you just add them in the pdf?
Hi Linda
I suggest you add them into the PDF when printing.
I see that Abode Acrobat allows you to add page numbers when you print.
Refer: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/add-headers-footers-pdfs.html
Let me know how it goes 😉
You saved me from recreating the whole newsletter in Google Docs! Thank you 🙂
Inspect + Remove Element is my new go-to move
Gus
Thanks for letting me know. Great to know that this technique saved you the extra work!
Thanks for the article, but I still want to find a way to get articles to better “paginate” for printing.
FYI: You can turn off the Archive/Past Issues, RSS, etc. buttons in Mailchimp via Audience > settings > publicity-settings. UNCHECK the “Activate the Archive Bar…”.
Hi Bill
Does this work for you ?
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-paginate-using-adobe-acrobat
Thank you, this was extremely helpful!
Hi Lisa
Im glad I was able help 😉
Cheers
Pete
This seems too good to be true! Will be crossing my fingers when I try this, thank you so much!!!!!
Hi Peter – thanks for creating this very helpful tips page! Really helped me with creating a nice printed version of my tennis club (Ballarat Tennis Club)’s newsletter.
I see your company is based in Adelaide – if you’re ever in Ballarat and feel like giving real tennis a go, give me a holler – beer from the club bar is on me 🙂
Hi Pat
Thanks for your kind feedback. I get over your way occasionally so the beer sounds great! 😉
Cheers
Peter