It worked great for a while and had a bunch of users but then NEU changed something on their end and this stopped working. :/ I am actively interested in finding alternate ways to send print jobs to NEU's servers, so if you hear of something, let me know! :D
Print to NEU Pharos Printers with Google Cloud print!
(If you ever get a printer offline error shoot me an email at ryanhughes624@gmail.com and I'll fix it)
- Send me your @husky.neu.edu email address, and I will share the printer with you.
- Accept the invitation for the printer.
- Open any page in Google Chrome (New Tab, any PDF, Google Drive document, etc.. ).
- Click ctrl-p
- Click "Change..." on the left.
- Select your @husky.neu.edu email from the drop down in the top right corner.
- Select the printer under the section "Google Cloud Print"
- Print away!
- Wait a couple minutes for your document to be processed.
- You will receive an email when the document is ready!
- When a document is printed, chrome sends a PDF of of the document to Google Cloud Print.
- The PDF is downloaded by a python script running on an AWS instance.
- The PDF is not stored and is never saved to disk.
- An email is sent to mobileprinting@neu.edu with the PDF and your husky email address.
- After northeastern processes the document, it is added to the Pharos print queue.
Code adapted from https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint