Chromebook Print - Advanced Finishing Options?
Our organization uses PaperCut MF and PaperCut Mobility Print as our Print to MFP solution (with a virtual hold / release queue) for all of our end users. While a small number of Staff still use a Windows PC, a vast majority of Teachers and Students have been migrated over to managed Chromebooks as their daily driver device. While Mobility Print does well to support simple print jobs from a Chromebook, our users are frustrated with their inability to select / adjust more advanced finishing Settings, such as staple and hole punch. As I understand it, the lack of MFP-specific (non-generic) print driver support on Chrome OS compared to Windows or Mac is to blame for the lack of additional print / finishing functionality, and there isn't currently much of anything our organization can do to make the Chromebook print experience better for our users at this time. With that being said, as part of the IT Team for our organization, I wanted to reach out here to Google Support for any recommended workarounds or alternative solutions to this current problem that might allow us to provide our users with these additional finishing options when priting on Chromebooks (via PaperCut Mobility Print). Or, if there's really no fix available at this time, is there any possibilty that Chromebooks / Chrome OS (or maybe Aluminium OS eventually) might work towards being able to support more hardware-specific print drivers in the future? Please advise what our potential potential present-day options are for resolving this matter, if any, and also, please keep the community posted if Chromebooks begin supporting better print drivers in the future. Thank you, and looking forward to any / all feedback!