Google is testing its Google Cloud Print service internally and hopes to make it available in the coming months after testing it with printer makers, the company said June 7. HP announced its support for Google Cloud Print at an event in New York City, where the printer maker unveiled a suite of cloud-aware printers for consumers and businesses. These printers will work with Google Cloud Print out of the box.
Google is testing its
Google Cloud Print service internally and hopes to make
it available in the coming months after testing it with printer makers, company
officials said June 7.
The company
introduced Cloud Print in April as a service that lets
any application print to any printer from any computing device using Google's
cloud computing infrastructure.
Google envisions the solution as an alternative to the on-premises print
solutions that use myriad drivers to execute print tasks, though the company
plans to support those legacy printers as well through a proxy running on
Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux machines.
Cloud Print is also the de facto print medium for
Google's Chrome Operating System, a Web-based
operating system that boots up computers in a fraction of the time it takes to
start most of today's machines. Netbooks running Chrome OS are coming from Acer
and others later this year.
"Development is progressing quickly, and we are now testing the service
internally at Google,"
said Google Cloud Print Product Manager Mike Jazayeri.
"Those testing it are particularly excited about being able to print
from their phones to any printer in the company. We hope to launch the service
in the coming months."
Hewlett-Packard announced its support for Google Cloud Print at an event in New
York City, where the printer maker
unveiled a suite of cloud-aware printers for consumers and
businesses. These printers will work with Google Cloud Print out of the box.
Jazayeri and Sundar Pichai, vice president for client products at Google,
demonstrated how a user might use his smartphone to print a tax form using
Google Cloud Print and Chrome OS without drivers.
Pichai noted during the demo, which begins at the 31:37 mark of this
video from HP's event:
"We have a cloud service which can talk to any cloud printer. This is
very complementary with what HP is doing. ... I got very excited with what they
are trying to accomplish."
While HP appears to be at the forefront of the printing cloud movement,
Jazayeri said Google is working with a number of printer manufacturers to bring
cloud print capabilities to their printers.
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