The one thing that drives me mad about the Chromebooks is Google Cloud Print. We don't use it very often and every time we do, it's broken. I don't know if it's something in our Brother printer or on the Chromebooks and I really, really, really don't care.

I just want to be able to connect the Chromebook to the printer and print.

AirPrint, on the same printer, works every time from my MacBook. But it doesn't require a "printer manager" to figure out what the printer's IP # is, point a browser to it, login, then use the admin interface to give permission to people via email and those people to click on the email.

It's Linux underneath so I don't understand why that can't be used to talk to CUPS or LPD or something similar in the same way the file system is used.