Friday, January 1, 2021

Migrating Chromebook printing for an Epson, when the generic model doesn't exist in ChromeOS...

1/1/2021

: Fun times on the homestead: Got to spend hours today getting my wife's Acer Chromebook to print to our five-month-old Epson ET-M1170 'Eco-Tank' monochrome Inkjet. 

Issue:  Google Cloud Print was folded by Google as of midnight last night (12/31/2020). 

Workaround: Migrate your Chromebook(s) from the long-standing Google Cloud Print middle-man, to the newer ChromeOS direct printer connection support in Chrome OS 59 or later...
All great in theory, unless your particular printer *isnt* covered in Chrome OS... My wife's *wasn't*.