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for years chromebooks and printers have
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suffered a very painful relationship
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but over the past couple of years things
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have changed quite a bit and today we
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want to show you just how easy it is to
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up a wireless printer and print from
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if you've been around chrome west as
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long as we have you're probably familiar
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with google cloud print
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this was google's attempt to kind of
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protocol for wireless printing and while
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okay attempt the problem was most
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manufacturers didn't get on board and it
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was near impossible to walk through
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a best buy and find a device that was
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print compatible a lot of users had to
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spend time researching
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finding a printer that worked or you
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ended up just using another
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laptop to act as a go-between as a
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for printing just so you could print
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with your chromebook thankfully those
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printing on chrome os has come a long
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way now google cloud print will
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officially be dead in two days dies on
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and that's left a lot of users worried
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about what are they going to do about
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like i said things have changed a lot
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and it's a lot easier to print with a
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chromebook now than it used to be
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we have an hp envy pro printer right
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here and and we've long
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recommended hp printers because thanks
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to hp's chrome plug-in
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most of their all-in-one printers that
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you find at best buy or target or
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just work with chromebooks you install
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the plugin for chrome
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and it sees the printer once it's hooked
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up to the wi-fi network
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and they just work they even give you
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and you can use the web browser to scan
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but as chrome os matures and more
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include themselves inside the chromium
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printing's gotten even easier many
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just show up in chrome os once you have
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them set up on your wi-fi
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and that's what we're going to do today
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we're going to set up this hp envy pro
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6445 using an android phone and the hp
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and show you just how simple it is to
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set up a wireless home
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printer and use it with your chromebook
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chrome os and printing have come a long
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way that doesn't mean it's perfect the
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chances are decent that you may have a
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printer that still doesn't play well
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and there are printers out on the market
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today that are new that
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may not work without a little bit of
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but many of the all-in-one printers that
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you buy from walmart best buy target
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if they're called all-in-ones and
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they're they're consumer wireless
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printers they're just going to work
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all it takes is you setting the device
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up on your wi-fi network
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for your chromebook to just see it the
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same way any other computer would and
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the best part is there's no installation
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of drivers or anything like that on the
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you just set it up on the wi-fi the
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chromebook sees it and it just works so
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we have this hp envy pro
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6455 here uh it's a little bit on the
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higher end for a consumer model
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but i've tested this with a
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hp printers they have 3000 series 2000
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they just work so what you're going to
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do is on your android or irs device
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you're going to find the hp
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smart app in the app store download it
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install it and then once you fire it up
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you're going to see add your first
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you're going to want to make sure your
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device is connected to the wi-fi that
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for your printer and then click your add
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it's going to search for any devices
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that may already be set up
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but if you click add printer here you're
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going to see the hp pro
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6400 is in setup mode and it's ready to
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go so we're just going to click into
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it's going to confirm your wi-fi so go
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ahead and put in your wi-fi password
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click continue then it's going to go
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through the setup process of pairing it
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wi-fi and depending on which one you
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have it may prompt you to
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press some buttons on the machine but
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once it does that it'll go through the
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setup process and in just a couple of
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minutes your printer will be connected
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to the wi-fi and ready to use
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and there you go in under a minute the
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hp printer is connected to the wi-fi
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it's set up and ready to print anyone
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that's connected to that same network is
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going to be able to see the printer
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it's about as simple as it gets and it's
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nothing new but here's the really cool
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all right so we already had one printer
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set up on this network but if you look
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the hp envy pro it shows up here and you
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save and it will now be in your saved
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on your chromebook so anytime you go to
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whatever it may be when you click print
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envy pro 6400 is going to come up as an
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drivers to install there are no
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extensions chrome apps or anything
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the chromebook just sees it and it can
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it's so much better than printing's ever
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and there's been a lot of panic with
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google cloud print going away at the end
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but we're just here to show you that
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it's so much easier than
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than you could have ever imagined and
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there's no reason to worry about what
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you're going to do moving forward here
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again we recommend hp printers because
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they just work with chrome os
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but this works with a lot of printers
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canon and others while we can't list
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i will drop a link down in the video to
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printers that are compatible with the hp
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smart app because if they are compatible
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chances are really good that they're
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going to work with your chromebook so
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in under three minutes we set up an hp
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printer from scratch and we can print to
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it from our chromebook
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and it doesn't really get much easier
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than that so if you like the video guys
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because we've got a lot more how-to
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we know a lot of people got new
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chromebooks for christmas and we want to
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help you get in there
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and make the most out of your device and
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we'll see you next time
