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.

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:Remember when ...

[Jarik C-Bol]

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

Re:Ads in the middle of your print jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Google is becoming synonymous with idiotic

[OhANameWhatName]

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?