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Has anybody tried to use Google Print Services to send print jobs to office printers?

Would be a very handy way to provide form printing from inside Django....

Especially for stuff batched late at night...

Or is there another way?

Thanks in advance!

Richard Cooke

Interesting. How does Google Print talk to the printer? If it's just an HTTP request, it shoudl be fine in a paid account. If there's some other stuff going on, then maybe.

Printers that have Google Print built in connect directly to their Cloud server. Any Google product can send jobs to any printer in the cloud.

You can also run a local google cloud server that gives access to a connected printer.

And, supposedly, "any" program can connect to the cloud server and submit jobs. Access controlled by your Google ID.

I guess that should be workable, assuming you can work out how to send the job from Python. I would think that Google would provide docs for that if it is possible.

You might have to log in to your Google account to view this page:

Google Cloud print for Programmers

Even better: Python Code Samples

However, there is a warning at the top of the page:

The code samples below have not been updated since 2011 and are in the process of being rewritten to work properly with the latest specification of the Google Cloud Print API. In the meantime, please use the content on this page solely as a rough reference and do not base the implementation of your application on it.

I was hoping somebody here was using the system and could comment on its status. Or provide updated examples...