Chromebook printing to Windows printer

John_Gray

Has anyone any real-world experience of this, please?

Situation:

Wireless Router
connected via ethernet patch cable to
Windows 7 PC without a wireless adapter
connected via USB cable to
non-wireless Brother laser printer
This laser printer is set up as "shared" on the printer driver on the PC (but this makes no difference)

The Windows 7 PC prints quite happily to the laser printer.

Along comes a Chromebook which cheerfully connects wirelessly to The Internet, but under "Google Cloud Print" -> "Manage" the Chromebook cannot see any printers.
If I connect the Chromebook via a USB cable direct to the laser printer it can see it.

My question is:
is there any way I can get the Chromebook to print 'wirelessly' via the Windows 7 PC to the laser printer?

If so, how, and would I need any more hardware?

Thanks!

debitcardmayhem

Has the brother got a [STRIKE]sister[/STRIKE] ethernet port , mine is attached to my router via ethernet and it runs as if it is a TCP/IP lpd , works wirelessly from my lappy, phone etc without USB.
Generally the model name has an N on then end of it.

John_Gray

Sadly it is a low-end Brother laser, and only has a USB port...

debitcardmayhem

John_Gray wrote: »

Sadly it is a low-end Brother laser, and only has a USB port...

OK it should work via the PC anyhow (assuming the PC is on) but does your router have a USB port for printers etc?

debitcardmayhem

A question since I don't do chromebooks, can you share files from your PC to the chrome book ?

John_Gray

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

OK it should work via the PC anyhow (assuming the PC is on) but does your router have a USB port for printers etc?

Another no, I'm afraid!

And to your other file-sharing question, I don't know the answer, and I only visit the site occasionally, since it's ten miles away..

The end result is that we are bypassing the problem by "repurposing" the Chromebooks to the bin, where they belong, and replacing them by ordinary understandable Windows laptops.!

OGR

You didn't say anywhere that you added the printer to google cloud print via google chrome installed on the Windows 7 PC as described in this article.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?hl=en-GB

Both the chromebook and chrome on the PC need to use the same Google account.

John_Gray

OGR wrote: »

You didn't say anywhere that you added the printer to google cloud print via google chrome installed on the Windows 7 PC as described in this article.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?hl=en-GB

Both the chromebook and chrome on the PC need to use the same Google account.

You have linked to the cribsheet I was using:
But I said
"Along comes a Chromebook which cheerfully connects wirelessly to The Internet, but under "Google Cloud Print" -> "Manage" the Chromebook cannot see any printers.
If I connect the Chromebook via a USB cable direct to the laser printer it can see it."

I have no knowledge of how to "add" a printer to Chrome other than what it said there.

The point is moot, now, since we have decided to do the task a more straightforward/better-understood way.