Cambodia eVisa PDF Printing for Australians: 2026 Format & Backup Guide

Step-by-step: printing the Cambodia eVisa from your inbox

Here is the order of operations Australians actually follow once the approval email lands. It assumes you are on a home laptop or desktop — the workflow on a phone is similar but the print dialog hides more options behind a menu, so a laptop is easier the first time around. Five minutes from inbox to two printed copies in your passport.

Step 1 — Open the approval email and download the PDF

The Cambodia eVisa approval email arrives from a Cambodian government sender with a PDF attachment named with your reference number. Open it on your laptop. Aussie corporate inboxes occasionally block PDFs from foreign domains, so if you do not see it in the inbox, check spam and quarantine. Click the PDF attachment to download it to your Downloads folder rather than just previewing it in the browser — you want a local copy you can re-open if the print job fails the first time.

Step 2 — Open the PDF and hit Print

Double-click the PDF to open it in Preview (Mac), Edge or Chrome (Windows), or whichever PDF reader you use. Press Ctrl+P (Windows) or Cmd+P (Mac). The print dialog opens. Resist the urge to press Print straight away — the defaults are where most mistakes happen.

Step 3 — Confirm the print settings

Run through the seven settings in the table above before you press Print. Paper size A4. Scale 100% / Actual Size. Sides set to one-sided. Colour preferred. Copies set to 2. Orientation Portrait or Auto. Margins on Default. On a Mac the duplex and scale options are hidden under the "Show Details" twirl-down — open it. On Windows, the same options usually sit behind "More settings" in the Edge or Chrome print panel.

Step 4 — Print and inspect both copies

Press Print. Two A4 sheets come out. Pick each one up and check four things: the photo is sharp and not pink-tinted, the visa number along the top is legible, the QR code at the bottom is crisp and unsmudged, and nothing important has been clipped off the edges. If any of those four fail, reprint that copy. Fold each sheet once down the middle, gently, and tuck both inside your Australian passport.

Step 5 — Save digital backups to phone and cloud

Even though the printed copies are the primary document at the border, save the PDF to your phone (Files app on iPhone, Downloads on Android) and to a cloud folder you can reach from anywhere — iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. If something happens to your printed copies at a layover, you can walk into any hotel business centre and reprint from your phone in two minutes. The backup is not for the border, it is for the rescue scenario.

What to do if you can't print at home in Australia

A surprising number of Australians no longer own a home printer in 2026, and the ones who do have a printer often have a dry cartridge and a deadline before the flight. The Cambodia eVisa is small enough that any print shop in Australia can handle it. Walk in with the PDF on your phone or a USB stick, and you will be out the door in under ten minutes. Here are the five places Aussies use most often.

• Officeworks — around $0.20 to $0.30 per A4 colour sheet at the self-serve machines. Email the PDF to the print station from your phone, tap your details on the screen, pay with card. Two copies of the Cambodia eVisa costs under a dollar.
• Australia Post — most larger Post offices print A4 colour from a USB stick or emailed PDF for around $1 to $2 a sheet. Slower than Officeworks but easier in regional towns.
• Public libraries — every public library in Australia offers cheap A4 printing, usually 20 to 50 cents a colour sheet. Bring a library card or pay at the desk. A solid backup if Officeworks is shut.
• University campus print kiosks — if you are an Aussie student, your campus print account already covers this. Twenty-five cents a colour A4 sheet at most unis.
• Coworking spaces and serviced offices — if you work from one, the office printer is free. Always print the eVisa before you leave the desk on the last working day.

If you are already on the road and stopping over in Singapore or Bangkok before flying into Phnom Penh, your hotel business centre is the easiest fix. Almost every international hotel in Southeast Asia prints A4 from a USB or emailed PDF for free or for a token charge — ask at reception, they will point you to the business centre or print it for you behind the desk. Bangkok and Singapore stopovers are where most last-minute Aussie eVisa printing actually happens.

What to do if you arrive in Cambodia without a printout

It happens. The flight gets brought forward, the home printer dies, the hotel in Singapore is full and the business centre is locked overnight. You land at Phnom Penh, Siem Reap or Sihanoukville with the eVisa PDF on your phone and nothing printed. The good news is that this is fixable — Cambodian Immigration will not wave you through on a phone screen, but they will let you step aside and sort a printout, and every Cambodian airport has a print option.

At Phnom Penh (KTI), there is a small business centre inside the arrival hall, just past the immigration queue on the right, that prints from a USB stick or emailed PDF for around $5 to $10 USD per copy. Slow, expensive per page, but it solves the problem in fifteen minutes. Siem Reap (SAI) has a similar kiosk near the visa-on-arrival desks, and Sihanoukville (KOS), being smaller, leans on the airline counter staff — most will print for you if you ask politely. If you make it to a hotel in Phnom Penh or Siem Reap, almost every hotel in town will print the eVisa for guests free of charge.

The lesson from those rescue runs is simple: print before you fly. The two A4 sheets weigh nothing, take five minutes, cost under a dollar at Officeworks, and remove the only document-related stress from an otherwise easy entry. Aussies who skip the printing step are not denied entry — they are just delayed by thirty to ninety minutes and a small bill.

Next steps and related reading for Australians: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for Australian citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa eligibility for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.