Back in November 2019, Google has announced it will deprecate Cloud Print service in December 2020 and suggested users find an alternative print solution and migrate their print services. While deprecation is still a few months away, Google today made a commit to replace the “chrome://devices” page in Chrome with Cloud Print deprecation message, the company to also offer a flag to restore the previous content on the legacy page.
Google Cloud Print service allows users to connect their printer to cloud and print from anywhere using devices like Chromebook, PC, and smartphone. Google also offers Cloud Print driver for Windows. Once you install it, after adding printers to Google Cloud Print, you can able to print using any app on Windows.
The chrome://devices page lists and allows us to manage all printers connected to Google Cloud Print. This page to serve this message: “Cloud printing will no longer support after December 31”
ICYDK, from January 1st, 2021 onwards “Google Cloud Print will no longer be supported and devices across all operating systems will not able to print using Google Cloud Print”.
For those who want to use Chrome://devices page, can visit chrome://flags and enable “Force enable chrome://devices page” flag and restart the browser.
Through the new flag available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS, Google indicates chrome://devices page will no longer be supported and the flag will also be removed in Chrome 88. The change to chrome://devices page and new flag already made into Canary version.
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