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I have an HP Photosmart B210 this is a e-print printer capable of printing via wifi, I'm using this printer in Google cloud print, however there is a downside, the software that comes with it is only for Windows, so to print anything I'm using my Android device.



Transferring the file to my phone, then with HP's app or Cloud print app send the job to the printer which honestly is not that hard but I feel like I'm doing more steps than necessary.



So, is there a way to set up the printer in Ubuntu or is there a 3rd party app in which i could just import/drag and drop the jobs into Google's service and print them?.


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It looks like someone has made a CUPS/Google Cloud Print tool here:





And it appears the author provides a PPA:





To install it and configure it:




sudo add-apt-repository ppa:simon-cadman/niftyrepo

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cupscloudprint

sudo /usr/share/cloudprint-cups/setupcloudprint.py


After it asks for Google Credentials (it will only ask if this is the
first time you have used CUPS CloudPrint, or your credentials are
invalid) it will then ask if you wish to add all printers from your
Google Account.



To make it work with Google's 2 Step Verification system, you must create an "App password". To do this go to: the App passwords page in your Google account and set a new password for the service.



If you say ‘Y’ here, it will add all printers that are currently not
added to your CUPS install.



If you would prefer to add the printers manually, say ‘N’ here, and
add a printer manually:



Add a new printer ( via http://127.0.0.1:631 or usual interface ) as a
‘Google Cloud Print’ network printer. Select the ‘Make’ as Google, and
‘Model’ as Cloud Print.



/usr/lib/cloudprint-cups/listcloudprinters.py





This is only for adding printers from Google Cloud Print to your local machine. If you want to take your existing printers and add them to Google Cloud Print follow these instructions:




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