[Novalug] Small print servers and Google Cloud Print

Don E. Groves, Jr. dgrovesjr@gmail.com
Wed Dec 18 10:17:17 EST 2013


The Google's Cloud Print service works great.
Once you figure out how to connect your printer to the Internet, that is.

For a new fangled WEB aware printer that should be easy to do.  "? Security
?" I have no idea as I haven't seen one yet.

For a printer connected to your Desktop (either by cable or by local
network) you can easily use Google Cloud print (part of Google Chrome see
Settings Advance Cloud print) and share the printer to your Google Cloud
then on phone/tablet install the APP - Cloud Print by Google Inc (free)
{there are others, but this was so simple} If they are all your devices( ie
you use the same Google login on all devices) you are all done just go
ahead and print.  If some devices have other Users IDs then you'll have
some share settings to play with, but even those steps are
relatively simple to complete.

Now as to how your "Raspberry Pi as a print server" is going to  talk to
the Internet and Google Cloud print service? Well I guess your "Desktop"
could connect to the "Cloud" and share it's local printer(connection to the
"print server").  Otherwise the "print server" is going the need
an APPlication to talk directly to Google Cloud print service, it's
possible that one such APP already exists.



On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Stephan Greene <ks1g04@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone using a Raspberry Pi as a print server, and if so, any comments re:
> one distro vs. another, or other tricks? I just acquired one (gave up on
> converting old plug computers to the job as too painful) and plan to give
> it a go.  Raspbian (debian) seems to be the most popular, or at least
> reasonably documented, so going that route, vs. Arch linux on the plug
> systems I have here.
>
> Also, anyone tried Google's Cloud Print service? Thinking it might be
> useful now that I've acquired a Nexus 7 tablet.
>
> Steve
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