CHROME CLOUD PRINTER MAC OS

Administrators who are used to Windows print management solutions will be disappointed with the admin options provided within G Suite. It feels like CUPS was included to provide extra printing options for home users, those with ‘legacy’ (non-Cloud Print compatible, or USB printers) to help Chrome OS get to the mainstream.įurther improvements like printer auto-discovery and configuration have helped home users, but it’s not perfect. For example, we had a cheaper Dell laser printer and needed a custom driver, which was very difficult to install (we know, we tried – for hours) and gave up. Except that, unlike on Mac and Linux, Chrome OS doesn’t have quite the same level of flexibility to install extra drivers. This was seemingly a smart move by the Chrome OS team, who were responding to grumbles with Cloud Print. In that regard, it’s tried and tested, well developed and maintained, respected, and flexible.

CHROME CLOUD PRINTER MAC OS

In early 2017, the Chrome OS team introduced the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) into Chrome OS.ĬUPS is an Apple open source project which provides the backbone for printing on Mac OS and most Linux distributions (e.g. It’s a shame it didn’t scale for enterprise.

Google should be applauded for trying to bring printing into the 21st century. In case you missed the quiet announcement, Google Cloud Print officially died on January 1st 2021

Save for a multitude of reasons, it isn’t a big hit with Enterprise and Education users.

The promised land of printing: no print servers on-premise, platform-neutral (worked on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac).

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