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Cloud Printing Emerges in Chrome OS

Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News, Tips

When Chrome OS was first announced, one of the many issues brought up was the ability to print. The question was asked, “how are you going to be able to print with a cloud device”? Thus, the era of cloud printing was born out of necessity. And perhaps this new method of producing the digital into paper form will be better than the way we do it now.

DownloadSquad’s Lee Matthews discovered recently a cloud print dialog box in a Chromium OS build, and he’s anxious to start printing out some stuff right now.

I have already written at length about how this will be done, complete with video. I have to admit it is probably going to be easier to rely on the cloud for printing services. That’s because in instead of dealing with drivers and hardware connections with printers, they will just work like they are supposed to using servers specially designed to do so.

I’ve had to deal with printers in the past that make me want to turn them into a hot pile of plastic, Office Space-style. Here’s hoping cloud printing will be an elegant, easy to use solution. Now if someone could get rid of those stupid ink cartridges that cost hundreds of dollars that would be great too, but I won’t push my luck.

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