After I watched yesterday’s webcast by Google on Chrome OS, I got a bit curious about their cloud printing thing and thought would give it a test to see if it really works. So, I took the Chrome Browser Dev Channel 9.0.597.10 and setup/enabled Cloud Printing on my home laptop (Windows 7, 64bit) which is connected to my Canon PIXMA printer (via Wi-Fi). The Cloud Print Connector nicely recognized the printer and showed it on the printer management page:
Then from my Mac Book I went to the Cloud Print test page (http://www.google.com/landing/cloudprint/win-enable.html) and fired up a test page to the Canon printer:
When you click Print a test page button, you get to select a printer available on the Cloud Printing enabled PC (in my case in was my home laptop):
The job gets queued, which can be seen back at the printer management page:
After a couple of minutes, Chrome browser on my laptop automatically picks up the test page job and feeds to the selected printer, the job goes to the Completed print jobs list (refresh the above page after a minute or two):
And the test page is this!!
As Google claims, cloud printing is still in early stages and the above UI all subject to change.