DOT 1284.4 printer failure

[Laser_jock]

First and foremost kudos to Parallels for this product. It has run quite well and is quite responsive. It is precisely what I need....but.....But I do have a printer issue.

Hardware: MBP 2.16GHz/2-GB/10.4.7
guest OS: win XP/SP2

Issue: I have successfully connected to my Brother 1240 printer via USB that I have at home. More precisely, I used WinXP's 'add a printer' utility (as opposed to Bonjour) and had no problems.

So I head off to work, confirm that I can print to my office HP 2420 from OSX. then I fire up winXP. The OS states that it has found the printer as new hardware. Then cites that it needs to install "IEEE 1284.4 generic print... " and then WINXP just hangs up. Arrgh... Okay, try this a couple more times and get the same result. I should also point out that following this, the ability to print from the Mac is broken requiring the printer to be reset.

Okay, time to take a deep breath & try a different route: namely Bonjour. Bonjour sees the HP printer, I go through the installation process and select the generic/postscript etc., etc., as discussed on the BB. But when I attempt to print I get an error message that the printer does not exist and I cannot access the properties of the printer in the printer control panel.

any ideas, suggestions?? finally I should also point out that I can print to this printer via WinXP on a separation parition via bootcamp (two different copies of XP, btw).

 

[Laser_jock]

I give up....

I've gotten the XP VM to do everything (such as access to my lab's MS exchange server and access to secure web sites) but have failed miserably in my effort to be able to print to the aforementioned HP2420 printer or to SupaPDF (in the later case, I get that error message cited by a few folks citing that I 'do not have sufficient access to my computer to connect to the selected printer' when trying to install via Bonjour, which I do not get when I use Bonjour on the other printer). I have also tried the CUPS approach cited in the main printer thread with no success. I have two days left on my 15-day trial and I am disappointed to say that unless I can get printing to work I shall leave the Parallels approach and make my way back to bootcamp (since I need win for work).

Great potential, very nice product, but without the printing capabilities, it is but a toy and not a tool.

-LJ