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‎01-09-2020 09:28 AM - edited ‎01-28-2020 06:03 AM

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Product: Rebadged Samsung printers/MFPs
Operating System: Chrome OS

This post concerns several rebadged Samsung printers which are currently being sold under the "HP Color Laser" range name. I have been able to identify such rebadging through SPL (Samsung Printer Language) support being listed  in the specifications.

My concern is that most Chromebook owners are told (e.g. by experts in the Chromebook Help Forum) that the most Chromebook-compatible printers/MFPs are HP and Epson (in that order). However the following analysis of the HP Color Laser MFP 179fnw suggests that any Chromebook owner purchasing such a rebadged model without checking the full facts for themselves could soon end up extremely unhappy:

  1. Google Cloud Print (GCP) will no longer be supported by Google after December 31, 2020.
  2. No HP ePrint support currently exists.
  3. No HP Print for Chrome support currently exists.
  4. No Chrome OS native printing (AKA CUPS) support currently exists.

Does anyone know whether HP are collaborating with Google over the CUPS system or working on HP Print for Chrome to ensure that the current list of SPL-only rebadged printers, i.e.

  • HP Color Laser 150nw
  • HP Color Laser 178nw
  • HP Color Laser MFP 179fnw

will still be usable by Chrome device owners after 2020? If that is not the case, wouldn't some kind of warning be advisable to avoid upsetting Chromebook owners who are unaware of the situation?

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