[cups] Google's driverless local printing protocol
Douglas Kosovic
doug at uq.edu.au
Tue Jan 5 20:56:25 PST 2016
Hi,
I noticed when I did a recent update on an Android tablet, it updated the Google Cloud Print service and in its what’s new section amongst other things states :
- Adds support for Google Cloud Print 2.0 printers (driverless local printing, easy setup).
The driverless local printing got me interested and I started looking into it. GCP 2.0 uses the mDNS based based Privet protocol for local printing :
https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/privet
And there is a CUPS Connector that supports GCP 2.0 driverless local printing :
https://github.com/google/cups-connector/wiki
That CUPS Connector seems to be already packaged for some linux distributions, like :
https://packages.debian.org/sid/google-cloud-print-connector
Cheers,
Doug
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