Printing Nightmare HELP

[IamTimTech]

Hey, thanks for stopping in. I have on my desk right now:

1. Verizon Wireless Mobile 4G LTE Hotspot.
2. Brother HL-2270DW wireless printer. Specs for that HERE
3. Apple Macbook (Older Running Lion I believe)
4. Asus Chromebook
5. Samsung Chromebook.

The person who brought all of this in wishes to print wireless with all three of her devices. I have been working on this for a few days now. I have the mac hooked up and printing wirelessly through her network, which is a Verizon Wireless Mobile 4G LTE hotspot, simply enough. Chromebooks however; do not natively support this printer and this printer does not support cloud print.

I have been trying to devise a work around but can't seem to get the chrome books to work with cloud print. I would just like to get some opinions on how they would set this up, and any advice or tips to make this a reliable printing network whenever the hot spot is turned on.

P.S. Personally I detest the incompatibility of these chromebooks and were it me I would have my printer hooked up to a dedicated PC and just have all other devices print via the network through it. But given that they do not even own a PC that is not an option.

 

[Eximo]

They do make all in one dedicated print servers, that might be the simplest solution.

Example, not a recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WPS510U-Wireless-Print-Server/dp/B00BOJV99M/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1415126689&sr=8-11&keywords=wireless+dedicated+print+server

You would need to see if you can find a device the supports all the others.

 

[IamTimTech]

Hey that's pretty cool, they won't want to invest in that but that is good to know for the future

 

[hang-the-9]

Issue is that they got Chromebooks.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-print-from-a-chromebook/

According to this https://developers.google.com/cloud-print/docs/overview?csw=1 you need a computer connected to the printer that basically routs print jobs to the printer.

They should be able to use their laptop to setup printing from the Chromebooks. Or sell those toys and get real laptops that can print to a printer directly hrough IP printing.

 

[IamTimTech]

That is what I was thinking. They were satisfied to be able to have their mac print both wired and wirelessly and we called it a day.