Click thePrinticon in the upper-right corner of the email.

You may need to scroll over to find the icon.

When thebrowser’s print dialogcomes up, clickCancel.

Cancel button in Gmail Print dialog

The entire email appears on the screen that opens.

you might now scroll to view the entire message.

Click theIn New Windowicon that appears next to the Print icon at the top of the screen.

Print button in Gmail New Window pop-out

Scroll to view the contents of the conversation, then selectPrintto display or print the entire conversation.

Those 25 MB includes any attachments, your message, and all the headers.

Even the encoding makes the file grow a bit.