Google offers a web based printing technology called Cloud Print that lets you access your existing printer from any browser or mobile phone over the Internet. The same service can now be used to share your printer with anyone else on the web without them being part of your home network.
Step by Step – Sharing your Printer on the Internet
Assuming that the printer to connected to your Windows or Mac computer, here’s how you may share it friends and family anywhere:
Under the Hood and sign-in to Google Cloud Print.
Step 2. Choose “Finish printer registration” and all printers attached to your computer
can then be accessed over the Internet through Google Cloud Print.
Printer name that you would like to share with the outside world.
Step 4. Click the Share button, type the email addresses of your friends and Share.
It is as easy as sharing a Google Docs document with someone in
read-only mode.
google.com/cloudprint using their Google Account and accept
the “shared printer.”
Step 6. Next they hit the big “Print” button on the Cloud Print website, upload a
file and print using the shared printer. That’s it.
Once they print a file, you should see a new print job on your computer in the next ten seconds or so. Your friend can send files for printing from the mobile phone as well.
This method doesn’t require any complicated networking and since everything works inside the browser, it doesn’t matter whether they are sending print jobs from a Windows, Mac or Linux machine. It just works!
Also see this video link by Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZJ0cNik4U&feature=relmfu
Step by Step – Sharing your Printer on the Internet
Assuming that the printer to connected to your Windows or Mac computer, here’s how you may share it friends and family anywhere:
A: Connect your printer to Cloud Print
Step 1. Open Google Chrome, choose Tools –> Options (or Preferences) –>Under the Hood and sign-in to Google Cloud Print.
Step 2. Choose “Finish printer registration” and all printers attached to your computer
can then be accessed over the Internet through Google Cloud Print.
B: Share your printer with friends
Step 3. Click “Manage your Printers”, select the Printers option and then highlight thePrinter name that you would like to share with the outside world.
Step 4. Click the Share button, type the email addresses of your friends and Share.
It is as easy as sharing a Google Docs document with someone in
read-only mode.
C: How others can send print jobs?
Step 5: Your friend, with whom you have shared the print, should log on togoogle.com/cloudprint using their Google Account and accept
the “shared printer.”
Step 6. Next they hit the big “Print” button on the Cloud Print website, upload a
file and print using the shared printer. That’s it.
Once they print a file, you should see a new print job on your computer in the next ten seconds or so. Your friend can send files for printing from the mobile phone as well.
This method doesn’t require any complicated networking and since everything works inside the browser, it doesn’t matter whether they are sending print jobs from a Windows, Mac or Linux machine. It just works!
Also see this video link by Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZJ0cNik4U&feature=relmfu
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