• Mashable, Friday, April 16, 2010 12:59 PM

Google's latest pet project is a Cloud Print service, which will enable "any application (Web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer." Still in the early days of development, Google made the code and documentation public as part its Chromium and Chromium OS projects.

"The ideal experience is for your printer to have native support for connecting to cloud print services," the documentation explains. "Under this model, the printer has no need for a PC connection of any kind or for a print driver ... The printer is simply registered with one or more cloud print services and awaits print jobs." While predicting "obstacles" ahead, Mashable calls it "an amazing idea."

"If print jobs are handled in the cloud you won't need drivers, and most of the problems users have with printing from devices like smartphones and tablets will be solved."

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