Google Adds Cloud Printing Services For Mobile Devices

[Nick Hesson]

Google has announced the launch of brand new service, named "Cloud Print". This new service is available on mobile devices such as those running iOS 3.0 or later, including Android, as well as your PC (no mac yet) with Google Chrome. "Cloud Printing" will allow you to print from Gmail's interface, right from your mobile device!

To share printers you will need Google Chrome 9.0.597.1 or greater installed on the PC with your printer connected, so that you can connect it to the Google service. The setup is fairly simple as you would expect, and brings a whole new level of mobility. Google promises that support for the feature through Mac and Linux computers is "coming soon"

Imagine printing an important document from your smartphone on the way to work and finding the printout waiting for you when you walk in the door. Just open a document in Google Docs or an email in Gmail in your mobile browser and choose "Print" from the dropdown menu in the top right corner. You can also print certain kinds of email attachments (such as .pdf or .doc) by clicking the "Print" link that appears next to them.

The new Cloud Printing is already available to most English-speaking users. Check out their official page for more information

While some of you might be saying, "Well isn't this just like AirPrint", and yes it is somewhat similar, however, Google's Cloud Print service, works from any connection, whereas the AirPrint from Apple, will only work if your on the same Wi-Fi network as the shared printer.

It's great to see this kind of functionality being adopted into our mobile lives. Now I just have to find something to print.

Source: http://www.google.com/cloudprint

[Zokunei]

Cool. I wonder of they'll ever bring something like AirPrint to Android now. Or did they already?

[McMichael96]

Awesome!

[spazturtle]

Nice I'v been using this since Nov 2010. But year it's useful you can print form any where with Google Chrome installed.

[DRFP]

Already doing it with print magic and my wireless printer

[StealthBravo]

Pretty cool but I won't use it

[Rob2G]

This is cool. I cant wait for mac support
Thanks for the great office space reference. I love that movie.

[Zokunei]

Pretty cool but I won't use it

Same here.

[StealthBravo]

Maybe a year ago

[chrodriguezmarydown]

So how are the device talking to eachother? Airplay is through the same wifi network your printer is on. But how does this service work? Through the Internet so you can print "anywhere". Sounds nice, but it sounds little a brainy hacker can figure out a way to get my documents while it's being sent to my printer

[steelersfan32]

So how are the device talking to eachother? Airplay is through the same wifi network your printer is on. But how does this service work? Through the Internet so you can print "anywhere". Sounds nice, but it sounds little a brainy hacker can figure out a way to get my documents while it's being sent to my printer

Oh just wait till the hackers find a way to send you documents! 300 photocopies of Rickroll?

[steve-z17]

Meh, nothing too great.

[ohthatguyagain]

Lame. A dozen apps already offer this on every os imaginable.

I'm currently using the print central app. Avail in app store. ...iPad iPhone iPod win os x Linux unix android etc...

On another note, google has been completely unoriginal for the last decade. All that money and yet to come up with a single good original idea (excepting only the search engine itself)...

[EskimoRuler]

the fact that you dont have to be on the same wifi network is great, i hope apple can implement this later

[sadsamurai]

What a complete bullshite. I am so sick of this, cloud computing, cloud printing, cloud this, cloud that. Cloud my ars.
I am not going to connect my printer to the Internet or have a dedicated print server connected to it just so that I can print on my way to the office.
Wow, how farking busy I must be that I can't print after I arrived to the office?!
Yes, I am Mr. Very Busy himself.
F.'em and their "clouds". I am sick of clouds, I want sunshine.