Chromebooks are gaining market share and going well beyond classrooms. Gartner projects that Chromebooks sales will hit more than 14 million units in the next 2 years, reaching 5 percent of the PC market.  The corporate market is quickly picking up Chrome OS-based devices to cut the cost of computing in half for mobile staff.

Unfortunately for most employees and IT staff, organizations are overlooking the needs for printing from these ultra-portables.  As Chromebooks are more like laptops, the simplistic ‘Control-P’ functionality to print from cloud-based Google Apps is expected.  For enterprise organizations this functionality for network printing is cumbersome using the basic Google Cloud Print capabilities of Chromebooks and network printers.

If your customers are implementing Chromebooks into their enterprise infrastructure, make sure to evaluate the available vendor neutral offerings available, providing enterprise-grade Google Cloud Print capabilities.  Look for solutions that are easy to implement for the IT department and easy to use for staff.

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