software must be running a version of PaperCut that supports Google Cloud Print. This monitoring component intercepts the local printing and reports the use back to the primary Application Server. The Print Provider A Print Provider is a monitoring service installed on a secondary print server to allow PaperCut to control and track printers.
A print server can be a dedicated server but on many networks this server also performs other tasks, such as, file serving cannot be published to Google Cloud Print. Users submit print jobs to a print server rather then directly to the printer itself. Printers managed by a Novell print server A print server is a system responsible for hosting print queues and sharing printer resources to desktops.
Google Cloud Print is supported by PaperCut Print Providers running on Windows, Linux or Mac OS. The following requirements must be met for a successful Google Cloud Print integration: PaperCut manages any Google Cloud Print print jobs on behalf of the printer, and jobs are processed by the normal PaperCut work-flow. Once Google Cloud Print is enabled, a single click is all that is needed to publish a printer. Printers must be published to Google Cloud Print to make them available for users to print. This makes it very easy to integrate Google Cloud Print into your existing print service. PaperCut takes care of publishing printers with Google, downloading jobs from the Google cloud, and managing the print work-flow. PaperCut informs Google that the job is complete. PaperCut tracks and manages the print job in the same way as any normal print job. PaperCut authenticates the user sending the job, then renders and spools the job to the specified printer. PaperCut is notified and downloads the print job from the cloud. PaperCut publishes selected printers to Google Cloud Print, making them available to Google Cloud Print user applications.Ī mobile or desktop user prints a document or email using Google Cloud Print and selects a published printer. The diagram shows PaperCut as the bridge between an organization's printers and the Google Cloud Print service. How it works Google Cloud Print and PaperCut With PaperCut you do not need to have Google Cloud Print Aware printers.
Use Google Cloud Print with your existing printers. Rich enterprise PaperCut features such as Find-Me Printing (see Find-Me printing and printer load balancing) work alongside Google Cloud Print. Google Cloud Print deployment is managed centrally, using the PaperCut Admin web interface to publish and deploy Google Cloud Print on selected printers. PaperCut tracks and controls Google Cloud Print jobs the same as any other PaperCut print job. Coupled with PaperCut, Google Cloud Print becomes a powerful mobile and BYOD printing solution for organizations of any size: On its own, Google Cloud Print provides untracked printing only to Google Cloud Print enabled printers. Whilst almost any device, including mobile and desktop computers can print to Google Cloud Print, for some devices, such as the Google Chromebook, Google Cloud Print is the only printing solution available.
provides a way to print from any mobile phone or tablet, running Android or iOS. Google Cloud Print works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, PC, and any other web-connected device you want to print from. Google Cloud Print Google Cloud Print is a technology that allows you to print to any printer from any web connected device, such as a phone. Users are increasingly bringing their own mobile devices (BYOD) to the workplace and need a printing solution. Google Cloud Print (GCP) is a cloud based printing service from Google that lets people print anywhere from any device.