How To Export And Print Slack Messages
Sometimes. Slack's export belongs to the people who run a workspace, so a regular member cannot export their own direct messages. If you own the workspace, or its owner runs the export for you, the channels come out as files that can be printed as a book.
Can I print Slack messages?
Yes, once you have them out of Slack. A workspace export prints like any other conversation, every message in order with each person's name beside what they wrote. For a short exchange, screenshots do it with no export at all.
Who can export from Slack?
Slack says workspace owners and admins can, and members who have been given its Export Admin role. On the Free and Pro plans the export holds public channels. On Business+, a workspace owner can apply to Slack to include private channels and direct messages.
Slack's help page lists no way for a regular member to export their own direct messages.
How does an owner run the export?
Slack's steps for Free, Pro and Business+: select Admin in the sidebar, then Workspace settings, then Security. Select Import & export data, open the Export tab, choose a date range and select Start Export.
Slack emails a link to the workspace's export page, where Ready for download gives you a zip file. The steps are on Slack's help page.
What do I do with the zip?
Upload it as it is. We read Slack's workspace export: each channel is a conversation, and you pick the one to print. Notices about people joining and leaving are left out. A file shared in Slack is a link in the export, so the book shows a small note where one was sent.
Is it OK to print a work Slack?
That is between you and the people who run it. A workspace belongs to an organization, and it may have rules about taking messages out, so ask first. When you order, you confirm that you're in the conversation and that the others in it would be happy to be in a printed book.
What if I can't get an export?
Use screenshots. Scroll up to the first message you want and take them from there down, in order. After you choose your book, pick Screenshots, tick the box and upload them, up to 100, 20 at a time. They are read by Claude, Anthropic's model, only if you tick the box that says so, and we don't keep the screenshots.
For a longer conversation, contact us. A person on our team takes the screenshots by email, puts them in order and sets up your book with you, free. That person sees what you send.
What does it cost?
The Unabridged, every message set as a novel, is $49 as a paperback and $89 as a hardcover. The digital edition is $19. US shipping is free.
Related Guides
- How To Print A Discord ConversationA direct message or a whole channel.
- How To Export And Print A Teams ChatA personal account exports. A work account is another matter.
- How To Print A Groupchat As A BookOne person exports it. Everyone can have a copy.
- Print the groupchat as a bookThe book, for a group of friends.
read receipts is not affiliated with Slack. Slack is a trademark of its owner. What this page says about Slack was checked against its own help pages on November 13, 2026, and apps change.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints a Slack channel as a book, for a team that is wrapping up or a group of friends who never left. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.