{"id":2579,"date":"2010-04-17T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:48:19","slug":"google-aims-for-driverless-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/google-aims-for-driverless-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Aims For Driverless Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a>Google<\/strong><\/a> (GOOG<\/a>) is looking to leverage its infrastructure to move printing to the cloud<\/strong>. Development is underway for a new feature in Chromium<\/a> where Google will communicate directly with printers<\/strong> to generate the output. The Google Cloud Print project<\/strong><\/a> is a service that enables any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer.<\/p>\n

\"HP<\/a>Google says that it will work with direct (USB or parallel) and network-attached printers using a Google ‘print proxy’<\/strong>. The app would send the document and details of the printer into the Google Cloud Print (or another cloud) service which will then send back a correctly formatted print request to the printer using the PC operating system’s native print stack and sends job status back to the printer.<\/p>\n

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As with most things Google, there is good and bad. The good is that printer management can now be off-loaded. The proposal can decrease the headache of print drivers for grandparents and network admins. Now even hand-held devices can print (think Android<\/a>, Chrome<\/a>, tablet, Chrome on a tablet) a document without having to worry about printer drivers or third-party applications.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google wants to move printing to the cloud Google Cloud Print that enables any application web desktop mobile on any device to print to any printer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[3240,202,1773,173,536,92,1133],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-3240","tag-android","tag-chrome","tag-cloud-computing","tag-goog","tag-google","tag-print"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t