HowTo: Use Google Cloud Print on Linux

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HowTo: Use Google Cloud Print on Linux

Despite what Google says about Google Cloud Print not being available for Linux, it actually is -- in the form of a Python script that you can execute on your Linux system and be able to print from your Cr-48 on it. Now for the dependencies: Apparently, you need Python (2.7 or older; 3.x will *NOT* work) and pycups to be able to use this script.

Have people used this?

And if you have a linux box switched on anyway (with printer) can't you just share it via that box?

Derry

Hi,

I have problem with cloudprint.py, when I start it, I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cloudprint", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('cloudprint==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'cloudprint')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cloudprint/cloudprint.py", line 304, in main
sync_printers(cups_connection, cpp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cloudprint/cloudprint.py", line 227, in sync_printers
cpp.add_printer(printer_name, description, ppd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cloudprint/cloudprint.py", line 131, in add_printer
'capabilities' : ppd.encode('utf-8'),
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 52637: ordinal not in range(128)

Could you help me how to resolve this error?

Thanks.

The problem is resolved with the new version 0.4.

Got cloudprint installed and working except it will only print text files. Anything else will go into the print que but stop. Job cannot be restarted only deleted.
This is printing from android device with cloudprint app.

Thanks Kenny for your help.

I followed your tuto and I have one major problem.
The service does not start automaticaly at startup...

I only created the /etc/init.d/cloudprint file and add a chmod +x cloudprint.

Do you have an idear ?

You must use the cloudprint regitered user, so if your user is "user" you can start automatically at startup by edit
/etc/rc.local

and add this line before exit 0:

su user -c /usr/bin/cloudprint &

bye

Paolo Rampino aka Akirad

Incidentally, "Google cloud print" is actually a marketing repackage of existing web-print technologies that are simultaneously available from other vendors. The stuff that you use to print to a shared printer in a hotel lobby from your room might well be the self-same thing ... and Google won't get a copy of your stuff and keep it forever.

Whatever, it is now available with chromium.