Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that.
Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment.
I don't think it really matters, of course. Android phones have a full set of manufacturer-specific printing drivers which work fine over the local network, and geofft noted upthread that ChromeOS has CUPS now. Internet printing is gone now, I suppose, but who used that?!
I am starting to think that I need a similar saying about Google.
When Google kills off a service, it's usually pretty much impossible to solve.
I would imagine very few, or else Google would be keeping it around. I would guess that Cloud Print basically didn't take with either consumers or enterprises, and as a result Google no longer wants to keep doing it.
But yeah, Cloud Print doesn't seem to have been particularly widely used or supported.
I've always had trouble using the printer except when using cloud print. Cloud print at least works every time, if i try to print another way it often fails silently.
I believe most printers nowaday expose themselves on the network using Bonjour/mDNS.
You still need the client to know how to talk with it and its drivers, but AFAIK ChromeOS gained that feature some time ago
"Your document may pass through multiple servers. Is that ok?"
Sigh.
And it printed simplex.
It's on the specs page for most HP and Brother networked printers, and probably most others.
I use it at home and like it, but when it came up as a potential solution for a project at work this the exact reason we didn't go with it.