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How to use Cloud Print on Android

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How to use Cloud Print on Android​

This is the part where I am disgusted with this, rant a little bit, but don't worry, it gets better. :)

I am sure I went through this before. I did the entire Google Cloud Print thing but the phone still needs drivers for your printer. I had to install this Canon Pixma app thing and then getting something to print was a MAJOR PITA! It is not like "Oh I want to print this web page" as on a PC, but more like an open the app, browse for the file you want to print, and it will THEN print that file from your printer. That is WAY more hassle than it is worth and I gave up on it. On WiFi, I can specify the printer by IP address. On the Internet, I am not sure how it is done. Yes, your PC has an IP address and you can port forward it through the router. Or, if the printer is Wireless, it only has a closed IP address, NOT one that can be used on the internet. So, you see, it is not as easy as they would like you to believe. My printer IS wireless and it did not make a bit of difference.

It is not a matter of printer being on all the time, it is a matter of finding that printer on the Internet and sending the print spool to it. None of the apps like browsers have "Print buttons. I seriously doubt your printer has an Internet IP or I could just start printing out dirty pictures on it and your wife would think you are a pervert! :laugh: LOL!

Maybe I will try again to see if it is any easier but it is not a high priority. My excitement to do this has already been squashed with the difficulty involved and "what you could actually print" was severely limited. Start out with Google Cloud Print in a Google Search, install it, and follow all the How To pages for it. You will see what I mean. :(

I will really make an effort to look into it because this is the second time this question was asked in exactly the same way, so you must be the one that wants it so bad. The manufacturers and Google/Android has to work it out so that it is not so painful to do. Right now it is like VHS or BetaMax. No ground between. JVC made all the money on VHS, it was a BIG war with a LOT of money at stake. Sony wanted it real bad and they have deep pockets to make it so. But the porn industry made it happen with cheap, easy tapes you could rent in the backroom that won the VHS/BetaMax war, NOT deep corporate pockets.

* This is where I give up my rant and now give you what you want, after doing myself first to prove it can be done. :laugh:

I just went to Google Cloud Print, did the Try it Now button and got a whole list of places to print from. Gdrive, FedEx, Droid Raz owned by me, and even had my own printer listed, Canon MG3200. First I tried the razr and of course, nothing happened. Then I scrolled down the list and it had a LOT of my stuff listed. Much in grey, meaning offline like Print to Adobe but there was my Canon MG3200 listed, I picked that and out came a nice printed color page from the Google Cloud.

How does it know my stuff? I use my Gmail address and log in with all things Google so I must have registered the printer during the cloud print setup, I cannot remember. But if you can print from the page link above to your printer, find it in the list, you are halfway there. make sure you are logged into Google on your PC so it knows where you are, then if you do not find your printer in the list, go do the cloud setup to get it registered. Then it should work from the phone. Here is your instruction page. Go try it!

UPDATE:

Yeah it really works. At least printing a test page from phone does. You must register your printer with your Google account first, then you can try a test print from the link way up in this message. If you can print a test page, your printer is found and registered. Next you need cloud print for Android. Search the play store for "cloud print" but do not take the top one from Google, it never makes an icon thus you cannot use or even open the app from the playstore. Get the next one, Cloud Print Plus by Paulio Fernandes and install that one. Turn on Cloud Printing from Settings/Printing. See your printer listed. Here is a video to help you out:

How to use Google Cloud Print (Print from Android or iOS)

While at that youtube video page, bookmark it and look at some of the other cloud print videos shown. Very helpful indeed to be able to watch someone else do it instead of just reading about it. ;)

If you get you printer registered in Google, then install the correct app, "Cloud Print Plus" by Paulio Fernandes, go to Settings/Printing and turn on Cloud Print, you can print everything. I just printed a web page, no problem. Will I be doing much of this? I seriously doubt it but for those that just "gotta have it", all the instructions you need are right here. Buenos Noches.

Is it fun and worth the hassle? You tell me. :D

...one tiny request, if I may. Can I please get an official XDA Thanks out of this post if it helps you, gets you to your final destiny, or at the very least, gives you a light at the end of the tunnel? Thank you very much.

P.S. I posted some screenshots to show you how it is done.

Also, make sure NOT to use the Google Cloud Print but the Paulio one. I am not sure if it is due to Android 4.4.4 or what, but if you install the Google one, it will NOT show in the app drawer or anywhere on the phone so you cannot use it. You will find it in the Play Store as "Installed" but there is no "Open" button, only "Uninstall". Even the Paulio one makes a desktop shortcut, but I cannot find "Cloud Print" ANYWHERE in the app drawer. (I had to Sort Alphabetical to find it.) Even the widgets are gone now. :( But, I can long press on any desktop to add widgets. Using Apex Launcher Pro. And, in the Play Store, the Paulio Cloud Print Plus *does* have an "Open" button.