Situation:
Wireless Router
connected via ethernet patch cable to
Windows 7 PC
connected via USB cable to
non-wireless Brother laser printer
This laser printer is set up as "shared" on the printer driver on the PC (but this makes no difference)
The Windows 7 PC prints quite happily to the laser printer.
Along comes a Chrome Book which cheerfully connects wirelessly to The Internet, but under "Google Cloud Print" -> "Manage" the Chrome Book cannot see any printers.
If I connect the Chrome Book via a USB cable direct to the laser printer it can see it.
My question is:
is there any way I can get the Chrome Book to print 'wirelessly' via the Windows 7 PC to the laser printer?
If so, how, and would I need any more hardware?
Thanks!
Printing from a Chrome Book to a Windows printer
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Printing from a Chrome Book to a Windows printer
John Gray
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Re: Printing from a Chrome Book to a Windows printer
Hi John,
See if you can get anything from this link...
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!top ... BjYjtl0kEE
See if you can get anything from this link...
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!top ... BjYjtl0kEE
Regards,
Rudi
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Re: Printing from a Chrome Book to a Windows printer
Hi Rudi
That's a good link, from which I conclude that I would need to give the PC a wireless connection, purely for the Chrome Book!
Thanks again
That's a good link, from which I conclude that I would need to give the PC a wireless connection, purely for the Chrome Book!
Thanks again
John Gray
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Re: Printing from a Chrome Book to a Windows printer
There's also this page https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?hl=en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; which only specifies "...a classic printer that is plugged into a Windows or Mac computer with Internet access..."
As I'm a bloody-minded sort of soul, I installed Chrubuntu on my Acer C710 chromebook. This prints nicely to my Brother printer which is a network printer. An option to consider, is whether or not the wireless router has a usb socket that the printer could be plugged into, essentially making it a print server.
As I'm a bloody-minded sort of soul, I installed Chrubuntu on my Acer C710 chromebook. This prints nicely to my Brother printer which is a network printer. An option to consider, is whether or not the wireless router has a usb socket that the printer could be plugged into, essentially making it a print server.
John
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Re: Printing from a Chrome Book to a Windows printer
Thanks, John - the link you gave is to the 'crib sheet' which I was using to try to get things to work! The problem is that the Chromebook cannot see any printer, which I find rather limiting...
The router doesn't have a USB socket. Come to that, I've never seen a router with a USB socket, but they do exist.
The router doesn't have a USB socket. Come to that, I've never seen a router with a USB socket, but they do exist.
John Gray
However far you try to push the envelope it'll always be stationery.
However far you try to push the envelope it'll always be stationery.