9:55 AM
Heath Stein
There is still room for printed materials in today's highly digitized society. No matter how fast we are able to transfer and share information through electronic emails, RSS feeds, social networking and the like, we can't really discard the value of having physical reading materials. But this does not mean that the use of ink and paper has to be low-tech. In fact, printing technologies have never been stagnant. We have seen how wireless printing, network printing and the others have drastically changed how we once looked at ordinary ink and paper printing. Now, with Google Cloud Print (GCP), more of these changes are about to happen.
This free service offered by no less that the biggest internet-based company in the world is not the first of its kind but it promises to provide more than what its predecessors can ever give. If you don't have a clear idea yet of what cloud Print can do, find time to read my Google Cloud Print Overview post. If
You Will Need:
1. Computer, should has Mac or Windows (7, Vista or Xp) OS
2. A printer (does not have to be GCP-ready, a classic printer will do)
3. Active Gmail or Google Account
4. Google Chrome, installed in your computer
Simple Steps:
1. Install Google Chrome
Call it self-serving but Google designed GCP to work only with Google Chrome. The service routes all the printing requests through the browser that is installed in your Mac or Windows computer. You can run Google chrome in your Mac by installing Windows in Oracle's VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion or any virtual machine that you are comfortable of using. If you don't have Google Chrome yet, just search for it through Google.com and you will reach a page that looks like this:
Hit the download button (that big blue button in the top-right portion of the page, if you don't find it obvious) to start the installation process.
2. Set-up GCP Connector
The latest Google Chrome installers automatically installs GCP connector as part of the complete installation process of Chrome. But, the connector has to be configured first before it will work. Refer to the image below:
Hit the wrech icon on the top-right portion of the browser (directly below the x-button). select "Under the Hood" from the tabs in the dialog box that will appear. Click on the "Sign in to Google Cloud Print" button as boxed in the image above. This action will open another window that looks like this one:
Sign in to Google Cloud Print using your Google account. If you do not have a Google account or if you want to create a new account for GCP, hit the "Create a Google account" link in the dialog box then sign in as you would with other accounts. Once you are signed in, GCP connector will automatically configure itself and you will receive a prompt like the one depicted in the image below to let you know that you can now use Google Cloud Print.
3. Getting Your Printing Jobs Done
GCP is designed to suit a variety of applications involving all Google applications (from Gmail, Google Docs to Google Maps). So, you can print from any of your mobile devices that can access these files. The procedure is really easy to follow so I'm pretty sure that you will be able to proceed with whatever it is that you want to do without any problems. See the photos below:
This free service offered by no less that the biggest internet-based company in the world is not the first of its kind but it promises to provide more than what its predecessors can ever give. If you don't have a clear idea yet of what cloud Print can do, find time to read my Google Cloud Print Overview post. If
You Will Need:
1. Computer, should has Mac or Windows (7, Vista or Xp) OS
2. A printer (does not have to be GCP-ready, a classic printer will do)
3. Active Gmail or Google Account
4. Google Chrome, installed in your computer
Simple Steps:
1. Install Google Chrome
Call it self-serving but Google designed GCP to work only with Google Chrome. The service routes all the printing requests through the browser that is installed in your Mac or Windows computer. You can run Google chrome in your Mac by installing Windows in Oracle's VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion or any virtual machine that you are comfortable of using. If you don't have Google Chrome yet, just search for it through Google.com and you will reach a page that looks like this:
Hit the download button (that big blue button in the top-right portion of the page, if you don't find it obvious) to start the installation process.
2. Set-up GCP Connector
The latest Google Chrome installers automatically installs GCP connector as part of the complete installation process of Chrome. But, the connector has to be configured first before it will work. Refer to the image below:
Hit the wrech icon on the top-right portion of the browser (directly below the x-button). select "Under the Hood" from the tabs in the dialog box that will appear. Click on the "Sign in to Google Cloud Print" button as boxed in the image above. This action will open another window that looks like this one:
Sign in to Google Cloud Print using your Google account. If you do not have a Google account or if you want to create a new account for GCP, hit the "Create a Google account" link in the dialog box then sign in as you would with other accounts. Once you are signed in, GCP connector will automatically configure itself and you will receive a prompt like the one depicted in the image below to let you know that you can now use Google Cloud Print.
3. Getting Your Printing Jobs Done
GCP is designed to suit a variety of applications involving all Google applications (from Gmail, Google Docs to Google Maps). So, you can print from any of your mobile devices that can access these files. The procedure is really easy to follow so I'm pretty sure that you will be able to proceed with whatever it is that you want to do without any problems. See the photos below:
