Google Is Terminating Google Cloud Print (9to5google.com) 64
Google has announced that Cloud Print, its cloud-based printing solution, is being retired at the end of next year. 9to5Google reports: The announcement comes in the form of a support document for Cloud Print that popped up recently, which is kind enough to remind us that Cloud Print has technically been in beta since it launched a decade ago: "Cloud Print, Google's cloud-based printing solution that has been in beta since 2010, will no longer be supported as of December 31, 2020. Beginning January 1, 2021, devices across all operating systems will no longer be able to print using Google Cloud Print. We recommend that over the next year, you identify an alternative solution and execute a migration strategy."
Google notes that Chrome OS' native printing solutions have been vastly improved since Cloud Print launched in 2010, and also promises that native printing in Chrome OS will continue to get more features over time: "Google has improved the native printing experience for Chrome OS, and will continue adding features to native printing. For environments besides Chrome OS, or in multi-OS scenarios, we encourage you to use the respective platform's native printing infrastructure and/or partner with a print solutions provider."
Google notes that Chrome OS' native printing solutions have been vastly improved since Cloud Print launched in 2010, and also promises that native printing in Chrome OS will continue to get more features over time: "Google has improved the native printing experience for Chrome OS, and will continue adding features to native printing. For environments besides Chrome OS, or in multi-OS scenarios, we encourage you to use the respective platform's native printing infrastructure and/or partner with a print solutions provider."
Glad I was sitting down... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, actually I was standing when I read that - which didn't matter, because I wasn't shocked by this news, at all.
I mean, come on. It's already November and Google is probably way behind on its quota of products to discontinue.
Google, you are dead to me! (Score:1, Flamebait)
Ugh, "chrome OS will improve", just like Android, right?! Leaving all the existing people in the dark.
I sure hope someone figures out the guts of this and writes a server that can run on a local machine and allow you to redirect DNS to that.
I bought Chrome OS devices for family so I don't have to deal with this crap. Now printers will be left dead in the water and unable to print stuff from Chromebooks.
Google has finally raised my ire and I'm going to actively avoid their products. Ironically MS was the
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Now printers will be left dead in the water and unable to print stuff from Chromebooks.
I'm not very familiar with Chromebooks but there must be some other way to print a document from one, isn't there?
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I'm not very familiar with Chromebooks but there must be some other way to print a document from one, isn't there?
Only if you install ChromeOS on the printer. And then you have to use an at best 3" screen to do so. I joke, I joke.
Or _DO_ I?
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Yes (Score:4, Informative)
> but there must be some other way to print a document from one, isn't there?
As of a couple years ago, yes. They now have standard printing like any laptop would have.
Just print direct from Chromebook to printer (Score:4, Informative)
Direct printing was added a couple of years ago.
You can use either a WiFi printer or a USB printer with your Chromebook the same way you would use to from any other computer.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/... [theverge.com]
If you haven't updated Chrome in the last few years, you'll want to turn the option on first under chrome://flags. It's been on by default for a while now.
Also if you haven't updated Chrome in a couple years, security guy is giving you a funny look.
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Yes, I can do direct printing from my Chromebook but what about my phone, my work laptop, the computer upstairs, random people that come over and need to print, etc.... My fault for depending on Google for a solution!
File menu Print, or ctrl-P, or email print (Score:2)
> Yes, I can do direct printing from my Chromebook but what about my phone, my work laptop, the computer upstairs
On computers, click the File menu, then click Print.
To add a printer on your phone, open the Settings app on your Android phone and type âoePrintingâ in the search box. Tap on the Printing option that shows up.
If you really like sending your print jobs over the internet like Google Cloud Print does, many printers can accept documents via email. Just attach the file to an email and s
Btw Cloud Print will still work locally (Score:2)
Btw, you can still use Cloud Print within your network if you bought a Cloud Print-ready printer. They should be able to do local discovery, rather than relying on Google's internet print service. You mentioned the protocol API - it's here:
https://developers.google.com/... [google.com]
Of course native printing gives you a lot more flexibility as far as setting options and all of that.
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What about Android though? Cloud Print was handy for printing from your phone or tablet. Say you were emailed a boarding pass or something.
Android (Score:2)
Open the Settings app on your Android phone and type "Printing" in the search box. Tap on the Printing option that shows up.
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Hmm, there doesn't seem to be an option for my Ricoh. It works with Cloud Print just fine.
Needs WiFi or USB, maybe shared printer (Score:2)
You might check whether your going by has WiFi and it's turned on / configured. If so it should autodetect. You can also plug USB devices into most Android phones via the correct cable. I'm not an expert on Android printing though. Mostly what I can tell you is that it's there, so there is a standard printing system for which you can Google more information.
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My printer doesn't have WiFi, it's got wired Ethernet that is connected.
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In that case I think you can do it, but it might not autodetect.
You might have to put the IP. But then again I'm no expert.
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Hmm, don't really want to open my printer up to the internet. With the old system it just sent the file to Chrome running on my desktop which printed it with the Windows driver.
Hell no, local only (Score:2)
Oh definitely I wouldn't open it to the internet. Use the local IP, probably beginning with 192.168
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But there's no driver, no app, the printer doesn't support Cloud Print natively. I was using the Cloud Print Connector on my computer.
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Some printers will autodetect, others you may need to type the IP, depending on settings.
Where you go from here depends on whether your goal is to get your printer working, or to complain.
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What I don't see is a way to print from my Chromebook to any random printer connected to another computer where I'm signed in. For example, I could print from my work chromebook to my work network printer, because Cloud Print treated it as any other printer. It is not, however, a wireless printer or a local USB printer...so I don't see what my options are any more. I just lose that functionality permanently, apparently.
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Because it's a network printer, you should be able to connect to it from the Chromebook the same way you connected from your other work computer. That is to say, there ia no longer any need to do it indirectly, routing print jobs through another computer.
That does mean that to print to the work printer you need to be on the work network. You may need to manually enter the IP if it isn't autodetected.
Never heard of it (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm sure it was useful to someone somewhere but to be honest, I'd never heard of it.
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I used it a lot to print clouds. Not sure what I am going to do now.
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I used it a lot to print clouds. Not sure what I am going to do now.
You'll have to draw them by hand.
I used it a lot to print clouds. (Score:1)
Maybe the NOAA / NWS should have used it more
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It was until Chromebooks got direct printing (Score:2)
Once upon a time Chromebooks couldn't print directly to wifi or usb printers. So print jobs went through the cloud.
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For instance, my Samsung laser printer has Google Print, I set it to use it with my google account, and add the email address of all family member, all of them can now print from their cell/tablet without problem, setup took 30 seconds.
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Envision a work computer with a VPN that tunnels all traffic. How else to print to your personal printer sitting next to it?
Ha (Score:1)
Nooo!!! (Score:1)
Well crap, why Google?? How am I supposed to print remotely when I'm not on my lan? And from Android? Use some crappy proprietary printer manufacturer specific service? Ugh!!! And I even used the API to print from apps too. Anybody got a printer neutral open source alternative that doesn't require dealing with PostScript/ghostscript/cups?
The GUI that sits on top of CUPS (Score:2)
CUPS *is* the "printer-neutral open source alternative".
No need to "deal with CUPS", just hit the Printing button I the GUI and it'll handle CUPS for you.
On your Android phone, open the Settings app and then in the search box type Printing.
Just as well ... (Score:1)
Google Is Terminating Google Cloud Print
I tried printing a bunch of clouds, but the pages all looked blank.
Cloud Printing Problems (Score:2)
Re: Just as well ... (Score:1)
Require Google to support all services forever (Score:1)
google vs microsoft (Score:3)
Google has a really nasty habit of just dropping products that don't ramp up hard enough and fast enough. They could probably do better than that if they spent another year or so on them but, the profit curve isn't what they wanted. I'm not clear how much they notice that when they keep doing this, their customers keep getting to know better than to rely on Google solutions.
Microsoft has been an utter catastrophe in doing the same thing for decades, and much worse. You'd think Google might have learned something. Microsoft will completely lock you in to products that they promise will last forever, and then destroy the whole product line within a year. Your music? Gone! And look, one of the next four mutually-incompatible versions of Windows CE/mobile/whatever might last a little! We have a new version of Microsoft Windows that has mostly the same features but, you'll never find them, because we changed all the names. We even decided to go from flat icons, to 3D oriented one way, to 3D oriented the other way, back to flat icons in the name of PROGRESS. Welcome to Windows 3.10 ... 0000000.
Google just fucks up a lot and it's often screwed me over. Microsoft is often both unspeakably incompetent and actively malevolent.
It was a band-aid until Chromebook got real printi (Score:4, Informative)
Cloud Print, basically the same thing as "email to print" offered by many printers, was a hack until Chromebooks got standard printing. Chromebooks have had regular, standard printer support for a couple of years now so there is no point to Cloud Print anymore.
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Pretty much, and both the printer and phone already have their own ways of remote printing.
Re: Dumbest idea they've ever come up with (Score:1)
Was fun (Score:2)
When is Stadia getting axed? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: When is Stadia getting axed? (Score:1)
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Or pull an Adobe and refund everyone except Venezuelans.
Why mess with anything Google-related any more? (Score:3)
Why would anyone want to invest any effort, time, or money in anything that Google comes up with? They introduce something, barely promote it, get bored with it, and announce that they're discontinuing it. No problem, I'll disable it on my phone to free up resources, right? Sure... if I want to find out the hard way what they mean by "other apps may misbehave". Great. What apps might that be? Maybe I won't care but how can I know?
Open Source the Android app (Score:2)
Does anybody remember this was developed for Android? Which has no native printing capability.
Just open source the Android app so people can create their own backend printing server and keep printing from Android.
Re: Open Source the Android app (Score:1)
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Hmm Comon Unix Printing System has little to do with applr, Apple may use it, they Might even have added some ayro duscovery. But callingnitt Apple CUPS is a bitof a stretch, unless the forked it and now maintain their ow sourcevtree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]:
"Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997 and the first public betas appeared in 1999. The original design of CUPS used the Line Printer Daemon protocol (LPD) protocol, but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing system for most Linux distributions. In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system fo
Premature death - standard operating procedure (Score:2)
But now how will I print off highlights from my Buzz or Reader feeds in order to identify key topics to discuss on Wave? I should go vent my outrage on G+ or Hangouts.
You don't say! (Score:3)
Up next.. (Score:1)
Stadia should be the next to get the axe in 6 months. With the current climate of COPPA i'd say YouTube has 2 years before it becomes a video graveyard unless the fed forces YouTube to identify videos as either kid-friendly or not.
Depending on how gmail fairs.. maybe 10 to 15 years if we're lucky.
I'm going to replace my home printer (Score:2)
Because that seems to be the only solution - My current CUPS setup doesn't seem to want to do it, though I need more firewall work to be sure.
But the same issue with a new 'cloud-enabled' printer, ports and addresses, DDNS, blah blah blah.
Thanks for the handy 'just click on the' advice. That works just as damned well as it did in 1994. As in not.
Google advertising (Score:1)
Someone at Google probably makes a pile of money advertising for the company. They pour all kinds of money into stuff and nobody knows about it because they don't tell anyone. Just like google+. I used it, a bunch of people I know used it, however probably like 99% of the people had no clue it was even out there.
High time they get someone that knows how to advertise stuff.
What about Android? (Score:2)
Chrome OS has its own native printing capability, and as Google says it is improving. That might be an adequate answer for that platform, though some old printers are likely to get left behind.
But where does that leave Android, where Google Cloud Print IS the native printing solution??