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I can print schoolwork and concert tickets from my tablet already using my wifi LAN and my wifi/eth printer (with firewall rules that block traffic to/from the printer to/from the internet), without sending them to google.
I don't care which type of file I print, I simply want to print them privately. As it it's already possible without GCP, I don't catch why people use it.
Exactly. I don't know why this GCP seems so "irreplaceable" to people using it, given the implications of "sending your files to google just to print them".
I can do the same using a wifi/eth enabled printer and my router plus maybe using a firewall to block the printer to go out on the internet and to be called from outside.
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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.
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Ok, so my printer is supposed to be registered to google cloud to make me print from anywhere. Ok. But my files?
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When you print through Google Cloud Print, your file is securely sent to your printer over the web. Because it’s the web, Google Cloud Print works whether you’re in the same room as your printer, or on another continent. It also doesn’t matter whether you’re on a phone, a traditional desktop, or anything in between (like a tablet).
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So if I'm in my room, on my laptop, at 3 meters from my ubersupercloudenabled printer, I can send my file to it via the web. Securely. Ok.
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Documents are transferred over a secure HTTPS web connection. After a job is completed, the associated document is deleted from our servers.
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The file is sent via HTTPS. But the file itself...is it encrypted? (Maybe the printer generates a keypair upon registration, and the same does every devices, etc etc...?)
Google Cloud Print jobs are submitted and retrieved over a secure connection (https), and are only available to you and the printer you’re using.
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Any document you send for printing is kept strictly confidential. Google does not access the documents you print for any purpose other than to improve printing.
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"to improve printing" may be the "metaphor" behind the functioning of Google Cloud Print itself. This can be read, after removing the double negations and the other usual tricks as "Google access the documents you print to give to you the comfort to print your files while staying 3 meters away from your printer, by passing them to the cloud and our automatic eyes and godknowswhat".
Yeah, sometimes it is used more in an "IRC" way than in a "SMS on steroids" way.
I think that the web and desktop clients just push this probability. Having a computer keyboard instead of a phone to write triggers a different "state of mind" in the user, I think. At least it's like that for me.