I am running v 4.0 on a boot camp partition. I set up my printer by configuring the virtual machine and adding a parallel port. After doing so, my printer was available in the dialog box. I made sure that it is "enabled" and "connected." However, when I try to print from and Office application, nothing happens. The documents appear to spool to the printer, and the documents I send appear in the print manager queue. I also tried to send a test page from the print manager. This also appears in the queue, but the actual printer is completely unresponsive.
Could you please recheck steps you perform, according to checklist bellow? You can share any printer connected to you Mac with your Windows or Linux virtual machine. The printer will be available through the virtual machine's parallel port. To share your Mac's printer: Launch Parallels Desktop and open the virtual machine. Open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog by choosing Configure from the Virtual Machine menu. Make sure that the configuration includes a parallel port. If necessary, add it. See Adding a Parallel Port. In the Parallel Port pane, make sure that the Enabled option is selected. Select Connected, if you want the printer to be automatically connected on the virtual machine startup. Select the Printer option. You can choose a specific printer from the printers list or use the Default printer option if you want to use the default printer set in Mac OS X. Click OK to close Virtual Machine Configuration. Start the virtual machine. In a Windows guest OS, if you have Parallels Tools installed, the HP Color LaserJet 8500 PS or Apple Color LW 12/660 PS printer is automatically connected to your virtual machine and you can use it at once. In a Linux guest OS or if you do not have Parallels Tools installed in your Windows guest OS, no matter what type of printer you have, install either the HP Color LaserJet 8500 PS, or Apple Color LW 12/660 PS printer driver and then follow the procedure of adding a printer in a guest OS described bellow. Warning: Do not install the driver from the installation CD, supplied with your printer, in the virtual machine. Adding a printer in a Windows guest operating systems To add a printer in a Windows guest OS: Start the Windows virtual machine and log in as administrator. Open the Windows Start menu, select Control Panel. In the Control Panel window, select the Printers and Faxes (or Printers, or Printers and Other Hardware) item. Open the Add Printer wizard: In Windows XP click the Add a printer link. In Windows 95 /98 /NT /ME /2000 /2003 double-click the Add printer icon. In the Add Printer wizard: In Windows Vista: - click Add a local printer, - select Use an existing port and click Next. In Windows 2000 /XP /2003: - click Next in the wizard's first dialog, - in the Local or Network Printer dialog, click Local printer attached to this computer. In Windows 98/ME: - click Next in the wizard's first dialog, - for the How is this printer attached to your computer? select the Local printer option. In Windows 95/NT: - click Local printer.
this didn't work. when I go to print, the printer is listed, and if I go to the parallel port, the printer is listed and marked enabled and selected. When I actually try to print it says that the printer is offline, nor is it able to show me the ink status in the print manager.
