Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows

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.

Comments

Ads in the middle of your print jobs

[blarkon]

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

Re:Congrats, Unknown Lamer...

[BitZtream]

Every Mac user on the planet who prints ... does it through CUPs.

I.E. there are more CUPS users than Linux users.

Want to try again?

Re:IPP/CUPS printing

[niftydude]

There is an app in the play store that does this Let's Print Droid (lpd :-) ). From the description:

If you have a business grade laser or print server (CUPS,LPR,SAMBA, etc) , the app will talk directly to them without any off-site conversion. No print data leaves your local network unless you choose the GCP (Google Cloud Print) option. (This app is not NSA approved ;-)