A new service called Google Cloud Print helps you in printing documents, email and other files directly from your computer or even mobile phone which is connected to Internet. No printing drivers or special hardware is required – only a Windows based computer with the Google Chrome browser’s latest version and a regular printer is required.
Setting up the Google Cloud Print does not take more than just a minute.
You need to enable Cloud Print after launching Google Chrome on the computer with which the printer should be connected. Now the website Gmail need to be opened on your mobile phone. Now click Print after choosing an email. Individual attachments can also be printed which are attached with the message.
Using Google Cloud Print directly from your Desktop
In the current form Google Cloud Print carries one important limitation – print jobs can be send only from a mobile which is Android based or an iPhone.
If your printer could receive print commands from any remote laptop or desktop using Google Cloud Print over the internet, will it not be useful.
First option is that using Dropbox your own printing setup which is email based can be created – Mac, Linux or Windows based machines connected to printers will work for this and second option is this that print commands can be send from any mobile or desktop which is capable of sending a regular email.
Alternatively, your desktop browser’s default string which is user-agent may be changed into Android and all the Google Cloud Print features can be enjoyed directly from the desktop.
Step 1. Inside the Windows Run Box the following command is to be copy-pasted for launching the Chrome disguised in the form of an Android mobile ( is to be replaced with your username for windows). The extension for User Agent Switcher is to be used in case you are a Firefox user for changing your browser’s agent to Android.
C:UsersAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe –user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; SPH-D700 Build/techlara) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17″
Step 2. Next inside your browser m.gmail.com is to be written and after opening any email print command is to be pressed. In case documents are to be printed they first need to be sent to Gmail inbox and then to Cloud Print.
[*] The given steps must be performed from that computer from which the print command is to be sent to the printer which has Cloud Print enabled. As long as the user-agent can be changed for your browser it will work fine in all platforms.