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- Google Cloud Print works with all printers, but for the best printing experience, we recommend that you use a Cloud-Ready printer. You can connect a printer to your Google Cloud Print account in seconds and start printing to it immediately.
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The best workflow and computer tweaks make your life easier, and that's certainly true of setting up Google Cloud Print. Once you have learned about the system and configured it, you'll be able to print to all your devices without a bunch of annoying go-between steps.
In other words, there will be no more "OK, I looking at this file on my Android phone, so I'll save it to my phone, copy it to my Dropbox account, go over to the computer and get it from Dropbox, and then send it to my home printer." There will be only "OK, I'll print this." and the Cloud Print system will delivery it right from your phone (wherever you are in the world) to the printer you've selected.
The first order of business is getting the actual physical printer online and part of your Cloud Print network.
If you have a Cloud Print-enabled printer, the best way to configure it is to refer to the manual--look for a Getting Started with Cloud Print section or the like. Setup should be as simple as plugging in a few items in the configuration panel of your printer.
If you don't have a Cloud Print-enabled printer, there are a few extra (although trivial) steps to complete. In order to complete them, you will need to be on a computer that is 1) on when you want to print 2) has Google Chrome installed and 3) can print to the printer you wish to print to remotely.
Note: Before we proceed, we highly recommend going into the Devices and Printers menu on your machine and removing any old printers.
We, for example, had several phantom printers installed that were no longer in service in our home office. If you don't remove them, they'll end up being listed in your Google Cloud Print account as useless clutter.
First, you need to enable Google Cloud Print in your installation of Google Chrome. This will allow Chrome to act as a print server for the Cloud Print service and send documents to the printers accessible to the computer on which it is enabled.
Now that your printers are Cloud-enabled, we have to attend to the most important business of all: getting documents from your devices to your printers.
If you're printing from a Google App of any sort, life couldn't be easier. Whether you're using the Google Drive app on Android, or Gmail on iOS, or just logged into the web interface for Google Docs from a remote computer, you can print directly from Google Apps into the Google Cloud Printer service. For example, here are some screen shots of me sending my daughter's chore check list from Google Drive, via my Android phone, to the printer upstairs--no special add on software or tweaks required:
All I had to do was open the document, click the menu in the upper right corner, select "Print", select the printer, and then review the print options before clicking "Print". By the time I walked up the stairs to retrieve the printout, it was already sitting in the tray.
When you're not printing directly from a Google App or an instance of Google Chrome with account syncing turned on, you'll need a helper application of some sort. There are helper applications available for Android, iOS, Windows, and OS X that extend the print functionality beyond Chrome/Google Apps to any print-capable application on the system (or serve as a sort of mobile print platform where you can open documents from your device and send them to the Cloud Printer).
You can check out the list of apps in the Google Cloud Print Supported Apps section and grab the appropriate app for your system. If you're curious how these apps work, you can check out our tutorial demonstrating how to use the third party Cloud Print app on Android here. Update: There is now an official Google Cloud Print application for Android.
Once you've completed the simple configuration process, the potential of the Cloud Print system is vast. You can share a printer with a friend or colleague who routinely needs to send you physical documents, you can set up a shared photo printer at your parents' house so you and your siblings can automatically send photos of the grandchildren, and, at minimum, you'll never have to dink around with trying to get a file off your mobile device and onto your remote printer again.
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Dec 16, 2013 · Google is doing its bit to delay the emergence of the paperless office with Google Cloud Print, a service that lets users print from web-connected devices, including Android and iOS mobile...
Feb 8, 2017 · Aside from mobile printing, cloud printing enables you to print using any printer (if there are multiple printers within the same network). This is ideal for a business or office setting. When you are trying to send print jobs to a printer, you no longer have to wait in queue.
Google envisions that as the Cloud Print protocol becomes common, new printers will support it. These printers would essentially become cloud aware and the older ones would work with the cloud via the “Cloud Print Proxy” which will be a part of Chrome from version 9.0.597.10 onwards.
Jul 26, 2013 · For example, if you have wireless printer installed on one machine, but have a second printer connected by cable to a second machine, you can add both printers to Google Cloud Print and print to either print from any computer or any mobile device.
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