Set up cloud printer install#
Set up cloud printer driver#

Again, with emphasis, enter your local Windows username and password. Enter your password and click “Register”. The password you enter here is the user password for your Windows account, not your Google password. When you launch the application, you’ll be greeted with a simple interface like so: Click on the Start Menu and look for the freshly installed Google Cloud Print Service: In order to do so, we need to actually launch the service.

Set up cloud printer install#

It looks like you’re done, but all we just did was install the Print Service we didn’t actually link it to your Google Cloud Account. Here’s the part of the installation process where it gets a tad non-intuitive. Confirm the installation and let it finish installing. Once you’ve downloaded the initial installation application by clicking “Accept and Install”, you’ll be prompted by the Windows UAC to authorize the installation. The catch comes later, when the installation app actually calls on Google Chrome (now, whether it actually needs any of the Chrome components to function or Google just wants you to use their browser, is unclear). Even though it will refuse to let you download the application if you’re not using Chrome, you can actually download it directly with any browser. In order to install the Print Service, you need to first visit the Google Cloud Print Service download page here. Installing Google Cloud Print ServiceĪlthough setting up Google Cloud Print Service isn’t a huge pain, it’s pretty non-intuitive for a Google product.

Set up cloud printer driver#

Service to link printers to the cloud Driver to add Google Cloud Print to your default printer list. Now, to avoid any frustration, let’s make that distinction very clear: If you want to integrate your existing printers into your Google Cloud Print account, you install the Service (which we’ll cover in the first portion of the tutorial), but if you want to install Google Cloud Printer as a printer on your computer (so you can print to your existing Cloud Print printers) you need to install the Driver. A copy of the Google Cloud Print Driver (if you want to add Google Cloud Print to your list of default Windows printers).A copy of the Google Cloud Print Service (if you want to link your existing printers to your Cloud Print network).What Do I Need?įor this tutorial, you’ll need a few things:

Instead of the relying on a Chrome extension to serve as a print server, you can integrate your printers and Cloud Print at the service level. Second, Google Cloud Print Service links all your existing printers directly to Google Cloud Print.