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>It's enterprise-ready Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that. Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basin
by ripdog 7y ago
>It's enterprise-ready
Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that.
Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment.
I don't think it really matters, of course. Android phones have a full set of manufacturer-specific printing drivers which work fine over the local network, and geofft noted upthread that ChromeOS has CUPS now. Internet printing is gone now, I suppose, but who used that?!
- mathw 7y agoSadly not for all printers, my printer requires an awful app that does everything itself. Not acceptable! But yeah, Cloud Print doesn't seem to have been particularly widely used or supported.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoyeah but enterprises in general don't own printers, they license them in bulk, there's plenty time to turn them around before the service expires
- snailmailman 7y agoI feel the opposite. My printer supports cloud print, OR an awful app, or just a normal print server thing (idk how printers work) I've always had trouble using the printer except when using cloud print. Cloud print at least works every time, if i try to print another way it often fails silently.
- m-p-3 7y ago> or just a normal print server thing (idk how printers work) I believe most printers nowaday expose themselves on the network using Bonjour/mDNS. You still need the client to know how to talk with it and its drivers, but AFAIK ChromeOS gained that feature some time ago
- manderley 7y agoTry out the "Mopria print service" (mobile printing alliance), most big manufacturers are part of it. They provide a generic driver app for Android that works for mobile printing with models from multiple manufacturers.
- j45 7y agoThanks for sharing, good to hear this is being democratized a little.
- mcguire 7y agoIt "powers the Samsung print service." The one that always says my printer is offline. "Your document may pass through multiple servers. Is that ok?" Sigh. And it printed simplex.
- angry_octet 7y agoAnd the Samsung printer group was sold to HP and all support vanished. I guess they fired everyone.
- tyingq 7y agoI can't speak to "widely used" but it is "widely supported". It's on the specs page for most HP and Brother networked printers, and probably most others.
- fiatjaf 7y agoWell, I relied on that heavily and there's no other solution.
- at_a_remove 7y agoI have, for many years, told people who get excited about an opportunity they see "don't build your stuff on top of someone else's free." I am starting to think that I need a similar saying about Google.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoExternal dependencies are always a problem, free or paid.
- zymhan 7y agoSure, but sometimes it's possible to solve that problem. When Google kills off a service, it's usually pretty much impossible to solve.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago> I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment I would imagine very few, or else Google would be keeping it around. I would guess that Cloud Print basically didn't take with either consumers or enterprises, and as a result Google no longer wants to keep doing it.
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- tbodt 7y agoGoogle itself has based its printing infrastructure on Google Cloud Print. I have no idea how I'm supposed to print anything now.
- twothamendment 7y ago"I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment." I use it at home and like it, but when it came up as a potential solution for a project at work this the exact reason we didn't go with it.
- angry_octet 7y agoYMMV for Android native printing, I've had many broken print jobs. It's just going to be a major PITA to deal with printer drivers again.