There is also the question as to whether Chromebooks should be able to discover printers which broadcast their existence on the network. With the current move away from Google Cloud Print, consider disabling it for all users which are not owners of managed printers. This has been a long standing recommendation in our Google for Education audit to disable this for student organizational units. Where these printers will be disappearing unexpectedly when Cloud Print goes away, and helps us to keep tabs on which printers need to be migrated to a new solution (either using a third party for additional management, or using the Native printing settings for general availability as mentioned in the previous article). Admin console settings Within the Admin console, we can disable a managed user’s ability to setup their own printers. Filtering the initial “output_printers.csv” will allow you to see printers owned outside of your organization which your users have access to, which is also helpful information. The additional limitation is that the second and third commands can only be performed when the printer’s owner is managed by your organization. Changing the “12m” in the second command will adjust how far back to retrieve print jobs. Also, you can limit the users you’re wanting to display printers for by adding a query parameter to the first “gam print users” command. Unfortunately, there is no API for this type of printer assignment. Output_printers.csv gam user ~ownerId printer ~id printacls The print share command will only show where a printer was shared in the interface, and not where the printer was configured within the Admin console. output_printer_acls.csv multiprocess csv Get all user owned Google Cloud Printer Shares Output_printers.csv gam user ~ownerId print printjobs printer ~id Get recent (12 months worth) print jobs for each printer Multiprocess append csv - gam user ~primaryEmail print printers Some examples of the information you can get using GAM is: Get list of Google Cloud Printers for all users The standard documentation for these commands can be found here. We can also see or update the properties for these printers including who they are shared with, whether they are online. With GAM, we can get a list of all cloud printers owned by users on our domain. The main repository is also primarily owned by one of Google’s employees, Jay Lee, who keeps in close communication with the owners of the other main repositories. The tool is open sourced, available for download from github, with a number of forks available.

For the uninitiated GAM, short for Google apps manager, is a command line tool which can be used to access several of Google’s APIs. GAM commands We’ve often touted GAM as one of Amplified IT’s Support team’s goto tools. After having some time to process what the next steps are for schools which are using Google Cloud Print, whether admins are aware of its usage or not, we’ve come up with some items to help start the coming transition off on the right foot. Amplified IT’s partner management team did an initial post on this news trying to get ahead of the fear which typically comes along with this type of uncertainty. This is only for adding printers from Google Cloud Print to your local machine.In November, it was communicated that Google was no longer going to support Google Cloud Print. Are PPA's safe to add to my system and what are some 'red flags' to watch out for?.usr/lib/cloudprint-cups/listcloudprinters.py If you would prefer to add the printers manually, say ‘N’ here, andĪdd a new printer ( via or usual interface ) as a If you say ‘Y’ here, it will add all printers that are currently not

To do this go to: the App passwords page in your Google account and set a new password for the service. To make it work with Google's 2 Step Verification system, you must create an 'App password'. Invalid) it will then ask if you wish to add all printers from your Sudo /usr/share/cloudprint-cups/setupcloudprint.pyĪfter it asks for Google Credentials (it will only ask if this is theįirst time you have used CUPS CloudPrint, or your credentials are To install it and configure it: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:simon-cadman/niftyrepo It looks like someone has made a CUPS/Google Cloud Print tool here:Īnd it appears the author provides a PPA:

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