Google is ending their Google Cloud Print service
so that means that you can't use that anymore to print from your Chromebook
now that's pretty bad right when you first look at it, "Oh no! How am i going to be able to print? Am
I going to have to use some type of service pay for an app or something else and the answer is
no you don't this morning I went to print for my Chromebook and Google Cloud Print service
basically is no more and i thought okay what am i going to do well let's see what their solution
is and i went to the app store look through different apps and they want money you know
to to have this service that used to be free and so I go no there must be a way to do this for free
so in this video what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how to print from your Chromebook
to your printer without having to download an app without having to pay for a service
and it's going to be done all for those who are in their home meaning this is not for the
enterprise user this is for the home user who has a chromebook has a printer and wants to use it
hey before we get into those steps this is Selma Teacher7 Mr Berry here, and if you are new to the
channel I hope that you hit subscribe and click on the thumbs up and share the video so that others
can see the steps too and how to print from their Chromebook to their printer now in the past what
we need to do is we would have a google cloud print and that's a free that was a free service
that existed and if you had a google account like a gmail account you could add a printer to that
account so that you'd be able to print to your printer regardless of your location and regardless
of your device all you had to do is log into your gmail from there you go control p and you'd see
your printer you print to it and it you could be in hawaii and print to your printer that was in
your office over in california not a problem no no limitations there so it was a great service
but like i said google it has discontinued that and it won't be seen any longer after december
31st 2020 so this is really important for you guys to know these steps on how to set up your printers
now there are many uh other solutions out there printer solutions
apps stuff like that and even services that you can go with and pay them to do this but
like i said this is going to be absolutely free and all you need to do is go to your printer
and what i did was i i own a brother's printer and i went and i printed out the printer settings now
i did that so i'd see all of the printer settings so i know exactly what i'm up against here
and there's two different numbers or two different settings that are really important to you in doing
these steps number one is is the ipp enabled now i went and i went on walmart.com i went
to amazon.com went to different places and all the printers i found there were network printers
and therefore they had the ipp enabled by default but let's just say that you know you never know
out there you go to your printer and the ipp is disabled for some reason all you need to do is go
to your printer go into the settings and once you're into settings look
for the setting called ipp and make sure that's enabled now like i said
100 percent of the printers i looked at this morning they were all enabled no no corrections
needed but just in case now you know what to do and once you've made sure that your
a your ipp is enabled the next thing that you want to do is you want to find that ip address
now it's going to be some number that's not 0.0.0.0 the very first number
on my sheets here it says ip address and it's all zeros well that's not the one that we're looking
for it's going to be an actual number kind of like the one that i'm showing here and once you find a
number similar to this one you say aha that's the ip address that i need and how you find that well
you can go again into your printer settings go down the settings until you find what's called
ip settings and from ips settings the very first uh words there are ip address and it says
192.168.1.131 and basically that's the number that you need now your ip address will be different
than mine okay any printers will be different but it will be some number
similar to that and that's given by your router by your internet router now once you have that
information there make sure that's written down or printed out in some way so that you
can get to it because now we're going to go into the chromebook settings and i'm going
to show you where to put that number in to set up your printer so that your chromebook
will print straight to your printer without having to use any apps and it's all done free
hey here i am in the chromebook now what you're going to do is you're going to click over there
on the time once you click on the time you see the notifications
come up there and you need to click on the uh icon that looks like a gear icon there towards
the top i'm clicking on that now and that is it says settings so we're going to click on settings
and it opens up into the settings now once you have the settings up notice at the top is a search
box now you could spend you know hours and hours looking through all of your hundreds of wonderful
Chromebook settings, but we're gonna forego all that and simply click in at the top versus
the search box and type in the word printer now once you typed in printer hit that enter key once
and it finds the settings that we need now notice right there towards the middle of the screen
it's an important one it says add printer so go ahead and click on add printer
and we get into this specialty box here now at the very first setting it's name you may say well why
do i need to name my printer well it could be very important especially if you add new printers or
you buy new printers for your home in the future so you want to give it the the name that you want
in my case i have three different printers and they're in my house there's they're all networked
and and they're all from brother so i'm gonna call this one brother and office i'm gonna give
that name there and that part is important that we'll come back to in a little bit
later here once you give it a name go ahead and now give it the ip address
and notice in the settings just says address well that's the ipp address or the ip address
that you found earlier in by looking at your printer there now just to let you know it
does not have any spaces in there so it's just number dot number dot number dot number there
there's no spaces or letters or anything like that it's just straight numbers and the periods
once you've done that click at the bottom there notice it says add so go ahead and click on add
so now you've added a printer to your chromebook so now what we're going to do is we want to test
this out and make sure that your chromebook actually prints to your printer you want to
test out right away make sure you've done the right things so open to any page and what i'm
going to do is i'm going to go to my google drive and i'm going to open up a google document
there we go and now once i'm at my google document i'm going to make sure that it prints so i'm going
to go ctrl p that's the shortcut that you use to print from your chromebook control p and once
you do that you get the printer dialog box that comes up now over on the side notice that it says
destination your destination has to be changed to the new printer that you just added
so click on there and notice it says see more click on see more
and now from that list you're going to select that new printer that you just added
and that's why i say it's so important to give it a name that you know which one it is
because it's possible that you might have other printers in there with very similar names
and click it once you've clicked it you'll get back to this printer dialog box and then
click on the blue button that says print and it should print out that page for you
hey so now you know how to add a printer straight to your chromebook without having to use any
drivers without having to use any apps without having to pay for any service and like i said
it's all done 100 percent free all you needed was a printer that had made sure that the ipp address
was enabled find that ip address by going into the printer's settings writing it down going into your
chromebook settings going into printer giving it that information clicking on add and there you go
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now that google cloud print has gone away thank you again for watching the video
and if you have a question on there please make sure that you do leave it down in the comments
and i'll try to get to those comments so that's question as soon as i can thank you again and bye
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