Administrators will also be able to configure external CUPS print servers, so organizations that need to route print jobs from Chromebooks have options.īut what about devices that aren’t Chromebooks? Google’s recommendations aren’t much help:įor environments besides Chrome OS, or in multi-OS scenarios, we encourage you to use the respective platform’s native printing infrastructure and/or partner with a print solutions provider. Administrators can use Chrome Enterprise‘s admin console to manage thousands of printers in an organization. Google’s alternative recommendations here are intended for enterprise users with Chrome OS devices. We recommend that over the next year, you identify an alternative solution and execute a migration strategy. Beginning January 1, 2021, devices across all operating systems will no longer be able to print using Google Cloud Print.

This printer has successfully printed for me before, but it goes through these phases where it stops printing and it hasn't printed for a week now.

This announcement was buried in a Google support document:Ĭloud Print, Google’s cloud-based printing solution that has been in beta since 2010, will no longer be supported as of December 31, 2020. My printer won't print - things remain in progress but remain there for days until I delete them. It seems it’s no longer crucial for Google as a company, either. Google Cloud Print is no longer crucial for Chrome OS. Note: You need to connect to your organizations wifi network that has access to your Mobility Print server to print from your Android device. Times have changed, and Chrome OS now has native printing support. If you stop the spooler and its files, most of the time, you both cancel printing and delete the print job. This means that the files are put in a temporary location so that the printer can access a print queue and print jobs at its own speed. Cloud Print was once crucial for Google because Chromebooks didn’t have native printing support-they needed Cloud Print to print. Print jobs are sent to the printer as spooled files.

Google cloud print jobs stuck in queue