This device (or devices) will most likely be mobile because, after all, your permanently located devices like home office computers and such are likely already configured to print to your home computer via traditional methods. The final component is the device you wish to configure to print to your Cloud Printer. If you don’t have a Cloud Print-enabled printer, you’ll need a computer that is on and connected to your printer during the times you want to print (if you have an always on home-server, now would be an idea time to configure it to print to your home printer so you can use it instead of your desktop). If you have a newer Cloud Print-enabled printer (check the list here) you won’t need a computer to act as a print server. What is bound together depends on your personal setup. The glue that binds everything together is your Google Account and the Cloud Print servers.
an Android phone, iOS device, laptop, or tablet). A device capable of printing to Cloud Print (e.g.A Cloud Print-enabled printer or computer capable of running Chrome connected to the printer.To use Google Cloud Print you need three primary things: In other words, there will be no more “OK, I looking at this file on my Android phone, so I’ll save it to my phone, copy it to my Dropbox account, go over to the computer and get it from Dropbox, and then send it to my home printer.” There will be only “OK, I’ll print this.” and the Cloud Print system will delivery it right from your phone (wherever you are in the world) to the printer you’ve selected.Įasy printing from a desktop computer has long been a cinch Google Cloud Print brings that same ease of one-click printing to everything else in your stable of electronic gadgets. Once you have learned about the system and configured it, you’ll be able to print to all your devices without a bunch of annoying go-between steps. The best workflow and computer tweaks make your life easier, and that’s certainly true of setting up Google Cloud Print.