diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87a6fd6d38..779436cfc2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Enabled the flake8-print plugin rules for ruff linter. These rules throw warnings over the use of `print` and `pprint` statements.
+([5046](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/5046))
 - Enabled the flake8-tidy-import plugins rules for the ruff linter. These rules throw warnings for relative imports in the modules. 
   ([#5019](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/5019))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: Fix `AttributeError` in `ExplicitBucketHistogramAggregation` when applied to non-Histogram instruments without explicit boundaries
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 294a7c4b09..e599c2f491 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ select = [
   "UP032", # f-string
   "UP034", # extraneous-parentheses
   "UP037", # quoted-annotation
+  "T20", # flake8-print
 ]
 
 ignore = [
@@ -101,6 +102,12 @@ ignore = [
 "docs/**/*.*" = ["PLE"]
 "opentelemetry-sdk/tests/_configuration/test_models.py" = ["E402", "PLC0415"]
 "shim/opentelemetry-opentracing-shim/tests/*" = ["TID252"]
+"scripts/*" = ["T20"]
+"opentelemetry-sdk/tests/*" = ["T20"]
+"opentelemetry-api/tests/*" = ["T20"]
+"docs/getting_started/*" = ["T20"]
+"docs/examples/*" = ["T20"]
+"codegen/*" = ["T20"]
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.isort]
 known-third-party = [