Chrome OS to support Printing Jobs with “Google Cloud Print”

Since the launch of Chrome OS, plethora of questions were raised over the feasibility and productivity of Chrome OS powered devices. How will the web based device ensure heavy data storage ? How will it print documents without any native printer driver ? and a lot more questions like these..

Today, one of the most critical questions of them all, ‘Printing’ from a Web based device appears to have been solved by Google Chrome OS team. Writing a post on the Chromium blog today, Chrome OS team has introduced some preliminary designs for a project called Google Cloud Print.

Google Cloud Print will basically enable all web enabled devices, be it desktop, web or mobile to be able to give printing job commands to any kind of printers, either Cloud aware printers or legacy printers, without any need of printer drivers.

So, all web enabled devices will actually give their print commands to ‘Google Cloud Print’ service and then it will be Google Cloud Print service, which will forward your print command to your Cloud aware or Legacy printers and get the job done.

Google Cloud Print service is still under development and the Chrome OS team has made both code and documentation publicly available.

All of this means that work behind Google Chrome OS is in full pace and all possible difficulties in building this revolutionary Web based OS will be conquered, soon or later.

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  1. [...] Chrome OS team announced earlier about Google Cloud Print, a cloud based service to execute printing jobs from any device (Desktop, phone or browser), [...]

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