Internet search giant Google is designing an online service - Google Cloud Print – which will allow the users of its cloud-based Chrome OS to send documents from any device to their own local printers as well as to other shared printers; thereby doing away with the dependence on local print drivers.

Noting that Cloud Print would receive and manage print jobs at the Google end and send them back to a printer, Google said about the new service: “Since in Google Chrome OS all applications are web apps, we wanted to design a printing experience that would enable web apps to give users the full printing capabilities that native apps have today.”

Elaborating further, Google said that the Cloud print service is will not be compatible only with the web apps running on Chrome OS, but also with all other desktop or mobile apps. The simple installation of Google Chrome on any PC and enabling of the Cloud print feature – which will be off by default – will allow users to print via the cloud.

Essentially, the ‘Cloud Aware Printers’ will connect directly to the Cloud print service, giving the printers an “ideal” native support experience, with the printer having no need for either a PC connection or a print driver.