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at the end of december they ended support for cloud printing ... now i can't for the life of me get my wi-fi printer to work with my stupid chromebooks
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https://killedbygoogle.com/
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what was the point of them killing that?
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You can't print over WiFi?
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it can see the printer but just can’t print to it
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Fix problems with Google Cloud Print
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I halfway expected that to suggest jiggling the cord
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Yikes, I knew google had killed many things, including a couple things I used, but I didn't know the list was so big.
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i'm just plugging in the usb cable to print

fairly annoying but it works

i gave up trying to make it work wirelessly

the wife's pc laptop can still do it, though oddly my new air can't
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go to print settings and add your printer and you should be able to print wirelessly on your air
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Donkey Butter wrote: go to print settings and add your printer and you should be able to print wirelessly on your air


as i mentioned, it works on the air; it's the chromebooks that are borked
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my mistake, I thought you said

TOS wrote: oddly my new air can't
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Maybe?

https://chromeunboxed.com/print-from-a- ... ithout-gcp
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Donkey Butter wrote: my mistake, I thought you said

TOS wrote: oddly my new air can't


sorry about that, it does work now, but i must have mentioned it in a different thread
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