Printing from Chromebooks and Chrome

HP Secure Print for Chrome is a lightweight browser extension that lets people print from Chromebooks and from the Chrome browser on any operating system without installing a print driver. Depending on your organization's licensing, the extension supports Secure Print, Secure Print Direct, or both.

One extension, two printing workflows

There is a single extension. What differs is where the job goes after it is submitted, and that depends on which capability your organization is licensed for. Secure Print and Secure Print Direct are licensed separately, so an organization may have only one of the two workflows available, or both.

	Secure Print	Secure Print Direct
What happens to the job	Held until the person releases it at a printer.	Sent straight to a chosen printer and printed immediately.
How the person prints	Select Secure Printer as the destination, print, then release the document at any secured printer.	Add a printer through My Printers, select it in the Chrome Destination list, and print.
Where the document waits	In HP Insights until the owner is present at the device to collect it.	Nowhere. There is no release step.

Note Secure Print for Chrome is available only to organizations using OpenID authentication. This restriction does not apply to Secure Print Direct.

What the extension gives you

Printing from any operating system that runs the Chrome browser, including Chromebooks.
No print driver to install or maintain on the device.
Central deployment to every user through the Google Admin Console, or individual installation by each person.
Where Secure Print is licensed, documents print only when their owner is at the device to collect them.

How it is set up

Setting up Chrome printing involves both administrator and user tasks.

An administrator either deploys the extension to everyone through the Google Admin Console, or invites people to install it themselves using a template generated by HP Insights.

Each person then installs the extension if it was not deployed automatically, and configures it once by pasting the configuration URL from their invitation email and signing in with their organizational credentials. After initial setup, the extension is ready to use and remembers the selected destination for future print jobs.