Users left distraught as Google Cloud Print set to bite the dust

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Users left distraught as Google Cloud Print set to bite the dust

Much-loved service will be deprecated on December 31

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Google Cloud Print will be no longer be supported from the end of the year. In an easily-missed update, Google announced that the service would be deprecated on December 31, 2020, which could come as a significant blow to Chrome OS users.

 

Google Cloud Print was first launched in 2010, but failed to ever get out of the beta testing stage. Nevertheless, it had its fair share of fans, who praised its ease-of-use, making printing available from any device running the Chrome browser. Users of Google’s own Chrome OS certainly enjoyed it as it often helped navigate some compatibility issues.

 

Fans of the service now have less than a month to find a new way of printing their documents. Google recommends that users “find an alternative print solution with [their] respective platform's printing infrastructure” before the end of the year.

Searching for alternatives

For home or business users that have been taken by surprise by the announcement, now is the time to start exploring alternative printing arrangements.

 

Fortunately, Chrome OS has its own native printing solutions for Wi-Fi, CUPS, and local printing devices. Microsoft also launched its own Universal Print service earlier this year, while HP has its own cloud-based print offering.

 

Other options that could be worth exploring may be found in Google Chrome’s collection of extensions. Plug-ins like EveryonePrint, may not have a major name like Google behind them, but they will be working hard to capture more market share by attracting former Google Cloud Print users.

 

Via ZDNet

 

 

Users left distraught as Google Cloud Print set to bite the dust

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Google is retiring the Cloud Print service this month: what to do next

 

By Charlie Osborne for Between the Lines

 

There are only 30 days left before the feature is deprecated.

 

 

Google Cloud Print is going to be deprecated in 30 days and users are urged to migrate before the deadline. 

 

First introduced back in 2010, Google Cloud Print allows users to connect to classic printers via the Google Chrome browser on their PC or mobile device, or to a cloud-based printer directly through the Internet. 

 

However, despite being a decade old, the service never left the beta stage. In a quiet update in 2019, the tech giant said the cloud-based printing solution "will no longer be supported as of December 31, 2020."

 

As of January 1, 2021, no device on any operating system will be able to access Google Cloud Print. 

 

This may cause some disruption to organizations and individuals that use the printing system frequently, and so Google recommends that users "find an alternative print solution with your respective platform's printing infrastructure."

 

Chrome OS has a native printing solution for local, CUPS, and Wi-Fi-based printers. Alternatively, Microsoft launched the enterprise-ready Universal Print service in March, in private preview. HP, too, has created a cloud-based printing solution that supports Microsoft's new offering.

 

 

To back up content, you can save material to Google Drive using print preview, or alternatively, use Backup and Sync with Drive File Stream. 

 

Once your organization is ready to migrate, you should turn off Cloud Print. This can be done by signing into the Google Admin console as an administrator, going to the admin dashboard, Apps, Additional Google services, and then Cloud Print, before finally turning off the feature through Edit Service.

 

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You mean people actually used it?

 

I never met one