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Comment by mathw | Hacker News Reader

Sadly not for all printers, my printer requires an awful app that does everything itself. Not acceptable!

But yeah, Cloud Print doesn't seem to have been particularly widely used or supported.

Try out the "Mopria print service" (mobile printing alliance), most big manufacturers are part of it. They provide a generic driver app for Android that works for mobile printing with models from multiple manufacturers.

Thanks for sharing, good to hear this is being democratized a little.

It "powers the Samsung print service." The one that always says my printer is offline.

"Your document may pass through multiple servers. Is that ok?"

Sigh.

And it printed simplex.

And the Samsung printer group was sold to HP and all support vanished. I guess they fired everyone.

I feel the opposite. My printer supports cloud print, OR an awful app, or just a normal print server thing (idk how printers work)

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.

> or just a normal print server thing (idk how printers work)

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

I can't speak to "widely used" but it is "widely supported".

It's on the specs page for most HP and Brother networked printers, and probably most others.

yeah but enterprises in general don't own printers, they license them in bulk, there's plenty time to turn them around before the service expires

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