[pgeorgi]

> Whatever happened to good old CUPS? Why did they have to introduce so many layers including Google's servers between the user and the printer?

As the support document states, as far as Chrome OS goes, the removal was made possible precisely because its CUPS support became good enough to supplant Cloud Print.

[oaiey]

I am really curious how they will make CUPS printer management on Chrome OS happen. I guess they bet on wide support on printers supporting some protocol native.

[jabl]

> some protocol native.

That being IPP everywhere (also knows as AirPrint, "Driverless Printing", Mopria(?)).

[kevin_thibedeau]

Are they going to fix the CUPS bug where a printer with a known hostname becomes unusable when its IP changes?