HP Taps Google print in the sky server - register

HP has announced that its ePrint printers are the first to support Google cloud Print, a service that allows to print via the interwebs.

"With HP ePrint and cloud-aware printers, you get the best print experience via Google cloud Print," sang Stephen Nigro Chief of HP Imaging and printing group in a statement, canned.

Google Director of product management Mike Jazayeri also took a moment for crow, and clarify ePrint that HP printers - available in incarnations OfficeJet, PhotoSmart, envy and LaserJet - are not the only instruments to benefit from cloud service business. "While the cloud printing is possible with any printer that is connected to a PC,"he said, "users can achieve a more simple, intuitive experience by printing directly on a cloud-ready printer." ""

In other words, if your printer can talk cloud print APIs of Google - as do the HP ePrint devices - you can print directly to them by sending your print job to the servers of Google, which checks if your cloud Print-enabled printer is registered with the service. If so, the task of printing goes offshore and your printer spitting it.

If your printer does not Print-enabled clouds, it must be connected to a PC connected to the intertubes.

In a blog Thursday, Abhijit Kalamkar Google software engineer ticket boasted that "you can already use Google cloud print on notebooks of chromium" releases mobile Gmail and Google Docs, a third-party Android applicationa Chrome extension, j and Firefox Add-on.

Mention of the "cahiers chome" Kalamkar, of course, refers to a rather limited of the property, a model - set and one, the Cr-48 Google is still a baby beta, available only for developers just one select, shapers of opinion and other souls to chance.

Cloud of Google Print was revealed in April, as a service to support based on a browser Chrome OS the mountain view, which was intended to appear at the end of 2010. At the time of his announcement, print clouds also said to be able to print from other devices, while Chrome OS was his main reason for "being."

When Chrome OS dragged its expiry date - Google says now that he appear you in "mid-2011" in Acer and Samsung devices - cloud print took a life of its own, launched in December 2010.

But it was expected Thursday that all parties have gathered: cloud Print, clouds Print-ready apps such as Gmail and Google Docs mobile versions and now Cloud Print-ready HP printers. ®

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