Google Drafts Cloud Printing Plan For Chrome OS

snydeq writes "Google is unveiling early-stage designs, software code, and documentation for a project whose goal is to let users of the company's Chrome OS print documents to any printer from any application. Called Google Cloud Print, the technology would dispense with the need to install printer drivers by routing print jobs from Web, desktop, and mobile applications via a Chrome OS Web-hosted broker. 'Rather than rely on the local operating system — or drivers — to print, apps can use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then be responsible for sending the print job to the appropriate printer with the particular options the user selected, and returning the job status to the app.'"

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Re:So Google invented....

[micheas]

If you were to say that cups is the best solution we have today, I might agree with you, but posts like this one http://weblog.zamazal.org/cups-sucks.html are pretty common for cups, and printing is at least as bad on other platforms.

The big problem with cups is the UI and the ablity to secure it so you can safely put your print server on the net, without random spammers printing their ads on your printer.

Cups is a good start, but there is a long ways to go.

Shouldn't you be able to print your report for the office from home or on the road on a laptop?

Cups could get there, but right now it is a long ways from being easy.