» Our goal is to build a printing experience that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer anywhere in the world.« http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint/images/overview.gif
This would certainly solve present printerlessness(?) of iPad and other future browse-the-web/ tablet devices. |
Thanks for sharing the screenshot |
Official blog post: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/04/new-approach-to-printing.html
<< Rather than rely on the local operating system (or drivers) to print, apps can use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then be responsible for sending the print job to the appropriate printer with the particular options the user selected, and returning the job status to the app....
You can view our design docs and outlines here http://code.google.com/apis/cloudprint and we hope you stay tuned for updates in the coming months. >> |