Printing a chord chart

In print the interface disappears: no navigation bar, no buttons, no menus. What remains is the title, the artist, the key, the tempo and the chart. The layout targets A4 and avoids splitting a section in the middle when it could fit whole on the next page.

Diagrams for the chords used can be printed at the top of the chart, or left out. The setting lives in your profile: turn it on for a song you are learning, off for a repertoire you know and want to keep to one page.

A second setting replaces identical sections with a short reminder instead of reprinting them. A song with three identical choruses then often fits on a single sheet instead of two. Again it is a choice: some prefer everything laid out on the stand.

If you read in dark theme, printing switches to light on its own: black text on white. Nobody wants to empty a cartridge over a charcoal background, and a dark chart on paper is unreadable on a poorly lit stand.

There is no separate export button: the browser's print command offers “Save as PDF” as a destination. The resulting file matches what the printer would produce, and can be emailed or loaded onto a tablet.

For a gig, printing songs one by one is tedious. A whole set exports as a single PDF, in setlist order, ready to bind or load onto a tablet. This bulk export is reserved for Pro accounts; printing a single chart stays open to everyone.