ADD A CLOUD PRINTER INSTALL
ADD A CLOUD PRINTER DRIVERS
ADD A CLOUD PRINTER DRIVER
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Any printer that you can print to from your computer can be added to GCP regardless of how it is connected. Classic Printers are either printers that are directly connected to your computer via a cable or wireless printers installed on your machine. Classic Printers are what most people will be using when setting up GCP. You basically just have to register your Google email address with GCP on the printer.

If you do have one of the printers listed there, you can click on the link provided for setting it up with GCP. You can see the entire list of Cloud Ready Printers here: Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of printers out there yet that support GCP.

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The other great thing about Cloud Ready printers is that they will automatically update their firmware and drivers over the Internet, so you don’t even have to worry about it. This is by far the best way to use GCP because the printer will actually register itself with the GCP service over your network and will always be available for printing. Cloud Ready printers are those that already come with the GCP service installed and configured. There are two types of printers in the GCP world: Cloud Ready and Classic Printers. The main thing to understand about GCP is how you connect the printers to the actual service. Now that you understand where you can currently print from, let’s take a look at connecting printers to GCP.

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At this time, Google hasn’t released a Print Driver for Mac, but you can download an app called Cloud Printer which does pretty much the same thing. For example, on iOS, you can download PrintCentral Pro, which will let you print emails, contacts, text messages, etc from an iOS device to GCP. Lastly, there is a short list of apps that work with GCP and allow you to print from them. The Print Service is more geared towards businesses and schools. Cloud Print Service will run as a Windows service and can be used to connect older legacy printers to GCP. They also released Google Cloud Print Service in addition to Print Driver.

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You can install this on any Windows machine and it will allow you to choose Google Cloud Printer when printing from any Windows application. On July 23rd, 2013, Google really made GCP a lot more useful by introducing the Google Cloud Print Driver. As of right now, there is not a Cloud Print app in the Apple App store, but with Google’s great track record for releasing Google apps for iOS devices, there is a good chance we will see Cloud Print make it’s way to iPhones and iPads soon.

Users can also manage printers, share printers, manage print jobs and more from the app. With this app, users can print a variety of local files directly to GCP including SMS chats, pictures, Facebook, Dropbox, Box, Mail and more.

ADD A CLOUD PRINTER FOR ANDROID

The first increase to this list was the Cloud Print app in the Google Play Store for Android devices. At first, you could only print from Chrome OS, Google Chrome on any platform and Gmail and Google Docs on your mobile. GCP sounds great, but you might be asking from where can I actually print from? Well, that’s where GCP has been making big leaps in the last year. So is GCP is the greatest thing in the world? Well, there are a few caveats and limitations that I will explain below. With GCP, you just install the Google Cloud Printer Driver on your Windows machine and you can now print from any program directly to any printer you have added in GCP. From here on out, I will refer to it as GCP. Now only does that take time and a lot of troubleshooting usually, it also slows down your system with a lot of extra printer software/tools you don’t need. For example, if you bought a new Windows PC and connected it to your network, you normally would have to find the drivers for your current printers, load the software and go through all the steps to get it installed on that PC.

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