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Google [CloudPrint](http://www.google.com/cloudprint) allows users to print to the cloud from devices such as your mobile phone. That is, you can print things from your phone to printers you have access to (e.g., at home) but is not directly connected to your phone. As of 5/12/2011, only printing from mobile Gmail and Google Docs (from the browser) are supported besides the Chrome OS. Currently, only printers that are accessible to computers running Windows or Mac with the Chrome browser installed are supported. What about Linux? [This](http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/applications_gui_multimedia/howto_use_google_cloud_print_linux) thread points to the [cloudprint](https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint/) python program. I installed it and have it started at startup via the following:

git clone https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint.git
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install daemon
sudo python setup.py install
## or skip the whole git process and do: sudo pip install cloudprint
## place content daemon script in /etc/init.d/cloudprint
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/cloudprint

where the daemon script was adapted from [this](http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/applications_gui_multimedia/howto_use_google_cloud_print_linux):

#!/bin/bash
# /etc/rc.d/cloudprint
# Description: Starts the Google Cloud Print script on startup
# ----------------
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Cloud-Print
# Required-Start: $cups $network $local_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Description: Start Google Cloud Print
### END INIT INFO

case $1 in
   start)
      echo -n "Starting Google Cloud Print: "
      ##/root/cloudprint/cloudprint.py
      sudo -u vinh cloudprint -d
   ;;
   stop)
      echo -n "Stopping Google Cloud Print: "
      ##killall cloudprint.py
   ;;
   restart)
      # echo -n "Restarting Google Cloud Print: "
      ##killall cloudprint.py
      ##/root/cloudprint/cloudprint.py
      killall cloudprint
      sudo -u vinh cloudprint -d
   ;;
# echo "Usage: cloudprint {start|stop|restart}"
esac

Then, add it to the startup list: `sudo update-rc.d cloudprint defaults`.

Make sure you log in manually [at least once](https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint/issues/14#comment_1149871) so that you can enter your username and password.

UPDATE 5/19/2011: I modified the init script so that I can print from a particular user. That way, if I print to [cups-pdf](http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2011/05/12/cups-pdf-example/), my files will be in `~/PDF/`. When cloudprint is run as root, I don’t know where the PDF’s generated from cups-pdf are. The [README](http://www.cups-pdf.de/cups-pdf-CURRENT/README) and `/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf` documentation states that outputs are always in `$HOME/PDF`, and anonymous files are stored in `/var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS`. However, I do not see the files in these locations. Therefore, I will just run cloudprint as my myself instead of root.

Also, I discovered [PrinterShare](http://www.printeranywhere.com/), a pretty useful printing app for Android devices.