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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Chromebooks all come with USB ports, right?
Then all that is required are printer drivers, I assume.
Would it be a major undertaking porting a Windows driver to Chrome? Or what about a Linux driver, would that perhaps be easier?
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"No messing with drivers" is a somewhat fundamental Chromebook principle. You wouldn't need "a" driver, you need drivers for any type of printer you might want to use.
Also, a driver requires software that knows to request it's functionality, so it would require more than a driver, it would likely require an OS patch to allow apps to request printing through a local driver.
Unless someone created a driver that appeared to the OS as a MSC device, and printed whatever file the user saved to it....
There are things that can be done for local network printing, though. I'd just like to see a method that doesn't require the Internet or external servers.