Google revolutioneaza cu Google Cloud Printing

Probabil cititorii mai vechi ai acestui blog s-au obisnuit cu conceptul si cu ideea de Cloud Computing. Evident, analiza acestor articole duce la neclaritati foarte mari. Intrebarile cele mai clasice sunt cele legate de ducerea in cloud a unor operatiuni precum imprimarea. Se pare ca baietii de la Google vin cu raspunsul.

Desi dezvoltarea este in pionerat, programatorii Google au pregatit codul si documentatia sa, integrand-o ca parte a proiectului Google Chrome OS. Acest document ofera solutiile ce pot fi abordate in aceste situatii extrem de delicate.

“The ideal experience is for your printer to have native support for connecting to cloud print services. Under this model, the printer has no need for a PC connection of any kind or for a print driver. The printer is simply registered with one or more cloud print services and awaits print jobs. Cloud-aware printers don’t exist yet, but one of our main goals in publishing this information at an early stage is to begin engaging industry leaders and the community in developing cloud-aware printers and the necessary open protocols for these printers to communicate with cloud print services.”

“We want users to be able to print to legacy printers via Google Cloud Print. This is accomplished through the use of a proxy, a small piece of software that sits on a PC where the printer is installed. The proxy takes care of registering the printer with Google Cloud Print and awaiting print jobs from the service. When a job arrives, it submits the print job to the printer using the PC operating system’s native print stack and sends job status back to the printer.”

Exista foarte multe obstacole, insa aceasta idee pare foarte interesanta si in acelasi timp utila. Daca pana acum ne-am facut griji in legatura cu problemele de compatibilitate, probleme ce sigur fiecare din noi le-a intampinat cel putin o data, noua tehnologie va rezolva acest neajuns. Practic acest serviciu avea nevoie de o mica aplicatie instalata pe computerul local ce va face legatura clodului cu imprimanta locala. Din acest moment, procesul va deveni unul automat, motoarele dedicate operatiunilor de inregistrare in Cloud Printing luand locul. 🙂