The Google Chrome operating system apparently will be designed to support output to printers without the use of onboard printer drivers, says Mike Jazayeri, Google Chromium group product manager.
"Since in Google Chrome OS all applications are Web apps, we wanted to design a printing experience that would enable web apps to give users the full printing capabilities that native apps have today," says Jazayen.
Google Cloud Print is a service that enables any application (Web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer, he says.
Rather than rely on the local operating system or drivers to print, apps can use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then be responsible for sending the print job to the appropriate printer with the particular options the user selected, and returning the job status to the app.
Google Cloud Print is still under development.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Google Aims for Cloud Printing
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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