Google has just announced cloud printing for iOS devices – iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad through the Gmail’s mobile website.
If you want to print from Gmail in your iPhone, you just need to pull down your menu icon and hit print.
Of course, you need to share your printers with Google Cloud Print for this to work.
You can print not only emails but also certain attachments in an email like PDF, doc, etc.
At present, this requires a Windows PC but Mac and Linux support are supposedly coming soon. Google is still rolling this out to US Gmail users. I don’t see it on mine yet.
Let us know in the comments if it is enabled for you and how you like it.
Google Cloud Print vs iOS Air Print
With the recent iOS updates, Apple announced a feature called Air Print. This lets you print from your iOS devices to certain printers in your local network.
Google Cloud Print is superior as it works with most existing printers as opposed to select printers that support AirPrint. Also, Google’s solution lets you print from anywhere over the Internet and you don’t have to be in the same network as the printer.
{ via Google Mobile blog }
