Googles CLOUD Print: How to set it up?

Google Cloud Print is a new technology that connects your printers to the web. Using Google Cloud Print, you can make your home and work printers available to you and anyone you choose, from the applications you use every day. Google Cloud Print works on your phone, tablet, Chromebook, PC, and any other web-connected device you want to print from.
Google Cloud Print works with all printers, but for the best printing experience we recommend that you use a Cloud Ready printer. You can connect a printer to your Google Cloud Print account in seconds, and immediately start printing to it.
Google Cloud Print integrates with the mobile versions of Gmail and Google Docs, allowing users to print emails and documents from their mobile devices.Google Cloud Print is listed as a printer option in the Print Preview page of Google’s web browser, Google Chrome, in Chrome 16 and higher. “Legacy” printers (those without cloud printing capabilities) are supported through a “Cloud Print Connector” integrated with Google Chrome (9 and higher). Google introduced Cloud Print in April 2010, as a future solution for printing from Google Chrome OS.Then they made the design document and a preliminary version of the source code available. Applications can print through a web-based, common print dialog (web UI) or an API. The service then forward the job to the printer registered prior to the service. A new kind of printer will be able to directly connect to Google Cloud Print; current printers will have to connect through a proxy server.
Google Cloud Print reached beta stage on 25 January 2011.As current printers cannot accept input from a cloud service, Google Chrome 9 contained a “Cloud Print Connector” – the user will only be able to use Cloud Print while the connector is running.
Printing through Google Cloud Print from any instance of Google Chrome was enabled in Google Chrome 16.Once you have everything in place, open up Google Chrome and click the wrench icon in the upper right corner, choose “Options” (“Preferences” on a Mac), and then click the “Under the Hood” tab. Alternatively, just click this link. Now scroll down to the Google Cloud Print section towards the bottom and click “Sign in to Google Cloud Print.”As of December 14, 2011, Google Cloud Print allows users to share printers in a manner reminiscent of Google Docs.

HOW TO SET IT UP?
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