INTRODUCTION
Google Cloud Print driver for CUPS, allows printing to printers hosted on Google Cloud Print ( see http://www.google.com/cloudprint for more information ).
INSTALLATION
PACKAGE INSTALL ( Recommended )
The recommended way to install CUPS Cloud Print is using your package manager, please see http://ccp.niftiestsoftware.com/ for installation instructions.
SOURCE INSTALL
Clone the git repo:
git clone git://github.com/simoncadman/CUPS-Cloud-Print.git
cd CUPS-Cloud-Print/
./configure
make install
Follow configuration below.
CONFIGURATION
Run /usr/share/cloudprint-cups/setupcloudprint.py ( or /usr/local/share/cloudprint-cups/setupcloudprint.py ) and either allow it to add all Cloud Print printers at once, or say 'N', and add manually:
Add a new printer ( via http://127.0.0.1:631 or usual interface ) as a 'Google Cloud Print' network printer. Select the 'Make' as Google, and 'Model' as Cloud Print. Supply the connection name as a simple URI pointing to the printer you want to setup, you can obtain a list of URIs from /usr/share/cloudprint-cups/listcloudprinters.py ( or /usr/local/share/cloudprint-cups/listcloudprinters.py ) :
Print a test page, to confirm it is working.
Assuming the test page prints correctly, installation is complete.
DEVELOPING
Before commiting to the git repository you should set up the pre-commit hook, this ensures the version numbers in the scripts are updated:
ln -s ../../pre-commit.py .git/hooks/pre-commit
Copyright and Trademark Information
Printer part of icon from Oxygen Iconset ( http://www.oxygen-icons.org/ ) and licenced under GNU LGPL v3 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html ).
Software and icon are copyright Simon Cadman and licenced under GNU GPL v3 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ).
Google is a trademark of Google Inc, and the software is unaffiliated with Google in any way.
CUPS and the CUPS logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. CUPS is copyright Apple Inc.