{"id":5087,"date":"2015-09-21T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2015-09-21T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:38:12","slug":"raspberry-pi-the-missing-link-in-googles-cloudprint-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/raspberry-pi-the-missing-link-in-googles-cloudprint-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi – The missing link in Google’s CloudPrint service"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we previously blogged, Thinker is experimenting with Chromebooks, which are streamlined laptops built around the Chrome OS. We\u2019ve discovered how much of our work can be done from just within a browser. However, one common hurdle is difficult to overcome : How can I print my document? Google answers this with \u201cGoogle Cloud Print\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google Cloud Print takes care of the printer connection details. This only works if your printer is \u201cGoogle Cloud Print\u201d compatible. What about an existing printer?<\/span><\/p>\n

The quick answer is to share your printer using another computer, which is reasonably easy to setup although we ran into a problem with this. One of our staff has a mac setup as the Cloud Print \u201cServer\u201d at their home. This then serves the printer to two Chromebooks. However, being a macbook, it gets packed up and brought to the office everyday – which means our Chromebook users have to wait until the mac returns home before they receive their printouts. Not an ideal or harmonious solution!<\/span><\/p>\n

Google does offer a Cloud Print server, which runs on Windows, but our experience shows that this becomes deregistered on a regular basis switching all the printers offline and, again, requires a computer to be on every day. We thought we should come up with a solution!<\/span><\/p>\n

We discovered a nice little linux utility called cloudprint.py, which we got working on a Raspberry pi mini computer. Additionally, it works without having to use a graphical front end, so less resources are needed on the Pi. However, it\u2019s still a little tricky to setup – once setup though – it works! \u00a0We are about to deploy these to all our Chromebook sites. If you\u2019re interested in getting printing working, we recommend you look into cloudprint.py from <\/span>https:\/\/github.com\/armooo\/cloudprint<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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