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Got a photo, a web page, or a PDF form on your Android phone that you’d like to print? Nope, there’s no need to send the document to your PC or Mac—and no, you don’t need a newfangled, web-connected printer, either.
All you really need, in fact, is a) a standard USB printer connected to your desktop or laptop, b) Google’s
Chrome web browser, and c) an Android app that works with Google’s handy (and free)
“Cloud Print” service.
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Just select your Cloud Print-connected printer to start printing documents straight from your Android phone.
What is Cloud Print, you ask? Well, it pretty much is what it says: a feature that lets you print documents and photos from the web, your phone, or a tablet, all via the “cloud.”
There’s a decent range of
Google Print-friendly printers and
apps available, and Google just released its own,
official Google Print app for Android devices.
And while you
can get a fancy Google Print-enabled printer that prints documents directly from the web, there’s nothing stopping you from using Google Print with the garden-variety printer you’re using right now.
Want to give it a try? Let’s get started…