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Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows

Posted by Unknown on from the not-invented-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced it is bringing its Cloud Print project to Windows. The company has launched both a driver and a service, both of which are available for download now from Google Tools. For those who don't know, Google Cloud Print connects Cloud Print-aware applications (across the Web, desktop, and mobile) to any printer. It integrates with the mobile versions of Gmail and Google Docs, and is also listed as a printer option in the Print Preview page of Chrome." One of the things that annoys me about Android: having to print through the Cloud (tm) when I have an Internet Printing Protocol CUPS server on the same network as my phone connected to a printer ten feet from me. It wouldn't be so bad if the Google Cloud Print libraries weren't proprietary and did something like IPP proxying instead of using a similarly proprietary API.

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  1. Ads in the middle of your print jobs by blarkon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will the advertisements be in the middle of your print jobs or printed to the side?

    1. Re:Ads in the middle of your print jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      it won't be on the same page, but you might experience some lag due to NSA snooping

  2. Re:Remember when ... by Jarik+C-Bol · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm forfeiting being able to use mod points here just to say there needs to be a "+1 Horrifying, but probably true." option.

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  3. Re:Google is becoming synonymous with idiotic by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 3, Funny

    But what do I know? I work for Google :P

    Well blow me down with a feather! Someone working for Google who thinks Google's ideas are good.

    Who would have seen that coming?