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Originally Posted by nikkie
@scottjl I would not be surprised to see a minor fix for the wifi issues in the next couple of months regardless.
As far as cloud printing being "way off", it's not as far as you might think since you can just use a proxy for all the legacy devices. It seems completely reasonable to expect an alpha release of some proxy software within a month or two.
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well. what i meant was it's going to take a while, months, possibly years, for people to either replace their existing printers with one that has GCP built-in, or to get around to running a proxy. and i certainly don't expect people to be installing any early alphas, even betas, certainly not in public locations like hotels (that i frequent).
i personally would
love to see some sort of universal cloud printing given that i travel extensively. it would be great to walk into any hotel or airline club and "just print" without worrying about drivers, printer capabilities, etc. as is, when i do have to print (which is pretty infrequent because i try to be as paperless as possible) i typically print to PDF (cuteprint on windows, or the native pfd ability on os x) and then print that out. pretty much every public system with a printer that i need to use has acrobat installed. they may not have word, excel, visio, etc.
it took years for usb to replace serial (9 pin, 25 pin, etc.) and parallel ports. it will be nice when we can do away with all these custom and unique printer drivers.