Monday, February 21, 2011

Google Cloud Print

The Google Cloud Print service lets you print from any device, such as your Chrome notebook or mobile phone, without the need to install print drivers or plug in any cables. Instead of physically connecting your printer to your Chrome notebook, you connect it to the Google Cloud Print service. Then you can print to it from any app, on any device, and from any location.

What you'll need:

In order to print using the Google Cloud Print service, first connect your printer to the service, by enabling the Google Cloud Print connector in Google Chrome.
  1. Log in to your user account on the Windows computer.
  2. Open Google Chrome.
  3. Click the wrench icon in the browser toolbar.
  4. Select Options.
  5. Click the Under the Hood tab.
  6. Scroll down to the “Google Cloud Print” section. Click Sign in to Google Cloud Print.
  7. In the dialog that appears, sign in with your Google Account to enable Google Cloud Print.
  8. A message appears confirming that Google Cloud Print has been enabled. Click OK.
The printer is now associated with your Google Account and connected to Google Cloud Print. You can print to this printer whenever you’re signed in with the same account on your Chrome notebook. You can connect up to three printers to Google Cloud Print using the same Google Account.

In order for other users of your Chrome notebook to print to the same printer, they’ll need to associate the printer to their Google Accounts, using their own Windows user accounts. Google is working on ways to let you easily share access to your printer with other users.

If you've already connected your printer to Google Cloud Print, follow these steps to print from your Chrome notebook:
  1. Make sure you’re signed in to the Google Account that’s associated with the printer.
  2. Click Ctrl+P to print your webpage or click the wrench icon and select print.
  3. A dialog appears, containing a list of printers that you’ve connected to Google Cloud Print. Select the printer that you want to use. To adjust page and printer settings, click Options.
  4. Click Print.
If the printer can’t be reached (e.g. the Windows computer or the printer is turned off), your print job will be saved in Google Cloud Print. You can see a list of your jobs at https://www.google.com/cloudprint/manage.html. Once Google Cloud Print is able to reach your printer, your request will automatically print.

To close the printer dialog without printing, press Esc.
Posted by Chrome Underground at 3:51 PM

2 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 21, 2011 at 4:26 PM

    Yes, this is awesome! So, quick question. I have a CR48 and it is unbearably slow at my house. Other places it worked fine. I changed my wireless security, even turned it off and am using Mac Addresses for security. Any other ideas to speed it up a bit. It seems to be doing okay for the first 5 minutes, and then it slows to a crawl so that I can not even check my Gmail.

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  2. mikeaJune 12, 2012 at 8:08 AM

    It sucks. It forces the page default to A4. My laser printer requires manual intervention if the print job is not the size paper that is loaded in the paper tray so to me, Google Cloud Print is useless. Have you read the blogs, even people without my problem are getting the bottom of their letter size printouts cut off because Cloud Print is forcing an A4 size page. Best of all, if you go into options to change the printer settings in Cloud Print, it will let you change them but won't save them. Google used to be great, but they're getting more and more useless every day.

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