---
name: "cloudprintd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cloudprint-service"
version: "0.11-5"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cloudprintd/8"
---

# cloudprintd(8)

share CUPS printers with Google Cloud Print

## NAME

cloudprintd - share CUPS printers with Google Cloud Print

## SYNOPSIS

**cloudprintd** \[*OPTION*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

The **cloudprintd** script makes locally defined CUPS printers available to a Google account, enabling local or remote printing from such services as the Chrome browser, Chrome OS devices, or Android devices.

This is a lower-level command. Cloud Print services would normally be managed through the cloudprint service.

The cloudprint utility is linked as cloudprintd for the cloudprint-service package.

## OPTIONS

- **-a** *\<account\_file\>*

  path to Google account ident data (default *~/.cloudprintauth*). The format of the file is not public.

- **-c**

  establish credentials to the service, then exit.

- **-d**

  run in daemon mode.

- **-f**

  fast poll, if notifications aren't working.

- **-i** *regexp*

  include local printers matching regular expression from the start of the printer name.

- **-l**

  log out of the Google account. This deletes the account identification file, requiring reauthentication the next time cloudprintd is run.

- **-p** *\<pid\_file\>*

  path to PID file in daemon mode (default *cloudprint.pid*).

- **-u**

  store username/password in addition to login token to avoid authentication expiration.

- **-v**

  verbose logging.

- **-x** *regexp*

  exclude local printers matching regular expression from the start of the printer name.

- **-h**

  display help

**cloudprintd** will prompt for a username and password if the information has not been provided.

If two-factor authentication is enabled for the account, then an application-specific password must be used.

## FILES

- *~/.cloudprintauth*

  Default location for storing account authentication credentials

- *~/.cloudprintauth.sasl*

  Default location for storing internal authentication tokens

## SEE ALSO

**[cloudprint-service(7)](/cloudprint-service/7.md),**[cloudprintd(8)](/cloudprintd/8.md),**[cloudprint(1)](/cloudprint/1.md)**