Monday, January 23, 2012

How To Print from Your Android Device

First, a disclaimer of sorts. The original design for the Android operating system did not have printing from the device as a requirement. It seems dumb, but the thought was that the device is truly portable and you would use your PC or other device to do any printing. Well, the designers were wrong and are now playing catchup. As of this writing, some third parties are providing some print capability, but with limitations. In this blog entry I'm going to talk about the only first party application available, called the Google Cloud. With a little "jumping through hoops" you can print just about anything. A key dependency is that you have Google Chrome on a machine that can print to a printer. For Windows, you also need a certain service. I am also assuming your email account is google. That doesn't mean other email accounts won't work. I just haven't tested other options.
The instructions I've written are a little to complex in format to put in a blog. So I've created a PDF document, which is here.

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