A Complex Network Shouldn't Break Your Printing. With Cloud Print Proxy, It Won't. Published May 22, 2026 Sunday mornings move fast. When a label doesn't print, the ripple effect is immediate: a backed-up line, a volunteer scrambling, a frustrated parent. For organizations running Rock Check-In, printing reliability isn't a nice-to-have. Itʼs essential. CedarCreek Church in Ohio found a setup that made print failures a thing of the past, and itʼs simpler than you might expect. What is the Cloud Print Proxy? Rockʼs Cloud Print Proxy is a small program that runs on a computer at your church location. Instead of sending print jobs on a long trip through the internet, it handles them locally, right there on-site, close to your printers. Think of it like a dedicated helper at each campus whose only job is making sure labels print quickly and reliably. Who benefits most? The Cloud Print Proxy is a great fit for churches that: Run multiple campuses. Each location gets its own proxy, so a hiccup at one campus never affects the others. Use a lot of printers or iPads. The more check-in devices you have, the more you benefit from a fast, local print handler. Deal with complex network setups. Firewalls, VPNs and complicated configurations can all get between Rock and your printers. The Cloud Print Proxy handles communication on-site, so those obstacles stop mattering. Want low-maintenance reliability. Once itʼs set up, thereʼs very little to manage. It just runs. The setup CedarCreek deployed two small mini PCs at each of their six campuses. Mini PCs are compact, affordable computers about the size of a thick paperback book. They chose the Geekom A5. One unit handles active printing at each location and the second sits ready as a backup in case the first ever needs attention. The specs are modest by design: AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processor 16GB RAM 512GB SSD They configured each machine to run a lean, stripped-down version of Windows 11 Pro with only whatʼs needed and nothing extra. The entire software footprint uses about 28GB of the 512GB drive. Small, quiet and always-on. The results Before switching to the proxy, CedarCreek saw occasional missed labels — a side effect of print jobs traveling from their hosted Rock environment through their network to reach on-site printers. The proxy put an end to that. Four weekends after their last reboot, the two proxy units at CedarCreekʼs main campus had logged 2,500 check-in tags without a single missed print. That campus runs a serious setup: seven printers and 15 iPads spread across kids ministry, students, growth track and volunteers. The proxy handled all of it without breaking a sweat. "The print proxy seems far more stable and responsive... totally glad we did it." Ready to give it a try? If this sounds like the right fit for your church, the setup is even more approachable than you'd expect. Rockʼs cloud printing documentation walks you through every step.