Idea ID: 2787640

Google Cloud Print support for Chromebooks

Cory

Status: Accepted

Accepted

over 8 years ago

It would be very helpful to have iPrint support Google Cloud Print, as not supporting it essentially means that iPrint doesn't support the majority of devices used in K12 education in the United States.

Chromebooks have become incredibly popular in the American K12 education market in the past several years, where they now comprise over half of classroom devices. They are frequently being used in 1:1 deployments, where each student is assigned a Chromebook for use in school and at home.

Google makes available an API for developers to integrate Cloud Print support into devices applications.

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MigrationDeletedUser over 7 years ago

We have >2,000 Chromebooks and this would be very helpful.
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago

It's good that this has changed to "Planned". I know we've stressed to product management that an actual "integration" with CloudPrint (the ability to publish iPrint printers to CloudPrint) is greatly important. I hope that's what is "planned". I know the Chrome iPrint extension is a nice option for some people, but it just doesn't seem to help a lot of us who are managing hundreds or thousands of Chromebooks. As these devices are more or less "designed" to use CloudPrint, it would be much easier for some of us to just be able to publish our iPrint printers directly to the cloud.
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allenmorris over 8 years ago

I must agree with this, in a years I can see all of our student workstations being replaced with Chromebooks. Having native iPrint to Google would save having to use a MS box.
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago

We are on track to have 40,000 Chromebooks by 2019. We definitely need them to be supported by iPrint.
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago

This is a HUGE need for us going forward. We plan on being to over 600 Chromebooks in just a few years (switching from Windows student devices). This seems to be the trend in a lot of K-12 schools. As of right now, I need to setup a Windows or CUPS print server and route Cloud Print jobs through that server via another 3rd party product that we're lucky enough to have.
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