Hi All,
I recently upgraded to Parallels 3.0 on my Macbook Pro laptop and tried it on my wife's MacBook as well. It seemed fine so we went ahead and bought two upgrade copies. All is fine... Until we tried printing. I dunno why we didn't try before that before buying. It seemed that should have been the least of the problems, with such an assortment of printing options. The thing is that NONE of them work.
Let me detail...
On either of the two machines, all our printers work on the Mac side. We have a total of four printers between us, all HP. HP Laserjet 2200dn, HP Photosmart C5250, HP Photosmart C6150, HP Photosmart C8750 are connected through a 100BT router. All are networked, either 100BT wired (C5250 is USB direct connect to MacPro and could be shared but isn't) in the case of all but the C6150, or wireless. I tried all three methods of setting up printing and none including seemingly the easiest (LPT work in this build.
The networked laptop computers are wireless capable or can be plugged in to a network switch. The machine see the printers, can print to them all, and view their set up pages on their respective router ports. Clearly they are working on the Mac in native mode.
Back when I was on Parallels version 2.x the printers had no trouble. Then there were other issues which rendered it unusable (USB). I found no trouble in Bootcamp and have stayed with that until now. Bootcamp on my MacPro works flawlessly. There the printers are fully installed as TCP/IP ported printers, not as LPT: shared devices as that obviously wouldn't work in a local environment.
As to LPT for example, set up printing to the Laserjet since that's the easiest, it's not clear to me if the printer on Mac needs to be set to sharing and sharing turned on (I read some instruction to that effect and others that don't mention it). I did NOT have sharing turned on in my first attempt. Is that required? Either way it doesn't work though. What happens in Windows is that the printer installs OK, but the item(s) in XP Control Panel>Printers and Faxes window has the 'Ready' grayed out, and anything sent to that device simply doesn't print.
Help, please.
Henry
Last edited: Jan 19, 2008