

After you enter this information, if your device isn’t found, you can also select your printer from a long list of manufacturers and models, or browse to choose your own driver. Select “Manage,” and a nicely-designed Material Design version of printer settings appears, with the option to “Add Printer.” You’ll need to know the IP address, configured protocol, and queue settings for your printer. Once Native CUPS is enabled, you’ll see a new “Printers” option in your Chrome settings (see: chrome://settings, at the bottom of the page select “Show advanced settings…,” then scroll) above the standard “Google Cloud Print” option. This adds support for long-time standard Unix-style print standards–the CUPS (common Unix printing system) system that uses IPP (internet printing protocol)–to your Chromebook. Go to the chrome://flags URL in your Chromebook’s browser, look for “Enable Native CUPS,” and click the “Enable” link below the setting. Experimental: Enable Native CUPS printingĪs of March 2017, local printing is still an experiment and is hidden until you enable it. Here’s how to enable the experimental printing setting on a Chromebook–along with a couple other alternative printing methods, as well. Chromebook users had to either add an adaptor, such as Lantronix’s xPrintServer Cloud Edition, or buy a Google Cloud Print-compatible printer. Not every printer supports Google Cloud Print, since manufacturers historically sold printers that worked with Windows and macOS systems. Local printing also allows you to print when your internet connection is down or when you’d prefer to not use Google Cloud Print.Ĭhromebooks and printers haven’t always gotten along well. That’s great news if you want to use a Chromebook with network printers that don’t support Google Cloud Print.

Sticking to traditional security playbook is mistake for cloud security: Palo Alto Networks SVPĬhromebooks recently gained the experimental ability to print to local printers with the release of Chrome OS Version 57 to the stable channel.

Gartner: Public cloud end-user spending forecast to hit $597.3B Google Cloud offers Assured Open Source Software for freeĦ best cloud-based project management software for 2023 How to print to a local network printer from a ChromebookĬhromebooks offer convenience and portability, but what about printing? Here are three ways to print directly to your networked printer from a Chromebook.
