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Originally Posted by ApK
"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.
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Exactly for local networks.
But even with the possibility that you are porting someone's else printer, all the magic "cloud" need do is know what printer it is, normal plug and play, or even the old fashioned "tell the damn thing what is there."
The engineer in me and I have been that a long time when things were much more difficult with printers can't see any other reason for Google to do this dumb thing except that they wish to drive everyone to "their cloud" even if there is not a valid reason.
Because of this there will actually be more resistance to them.