Share your CUPS printers with google's cloud print. Works with linux and OS X.
This software is a python implementation of a cloud print connector. Unlike Google's linux connector, it does not require chrome to be installed on the server.
- python 2.6 or 2.7
- pycups (can be tricky on OS X) wich depends on libcups2-dev
cloudprint [<option> ...]
-d : enable daemon mode (requires the daemon module)
-l : logout of the current google account
-p pid_file : path to write the pid to (default cloudprint.pid)
-a account_file : path to google account ident data (optional)
-c : establish and store login credentials, then exit
-f : 'fast poll', if notifications aren't working
-u : store username/password in addition to login token
to avoid authentication expiration
-i regexp : include files matching regexp
-x regexp : exclude filees matching regexp
regexp: a Python regexp, which is matched against the
start of the printer name
-h : display this help
Google accounts with 2 step verification enabled need to use an application-specific password.
cloudprint Google username: username@gmail.com Password: Added Printer Brother-HL-2170W
Include only the printers "lp" and "2up":
cloudprint -i lp -i 2up
Exclude all printers whose names start with "GCP-":
cloudprint -x GCP-
By default, all printers are included. For the include and exclude options, the argument is a regular expression which is matched against the start of the printer name.
For example, to include all printers whose names begin "lp":
cloudprint -i lp # includes both lp and lp2up
pip install cloudprint or with optional daemon support pip install cloudprint[daemon]
After running cloudprint, verify that the connector successfully installed the cloud printer by visiting http://www.google.com/cloudprint/manage.html.