Printer's driver only available for the PC VM

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I have a Canon Laser Printer for which there is no Mac Driver. I run it from the PC virtual machine and it is ok for Windows programmes but I would like to use it from my Mac as well. Is this possible under Parallels? If so how do I achieve it? Any help would be welcome.
 
I have the same problem

I have a Konica Minolta Bizhub c350 with PCL5C (no fiery) network printer.
This printer has drivers only for windows, so I installed it through Boot camp and parallels.
The problem is that if in boot camp the printer works just fine, in parallels it says that the network is connected but the information doesn't get to the printer.

What should I do?

My work is on my Mac and I'm tired of pulling out my laptop just for printing.
 
Mac Steam said:
I have a Canon Laser Printer for which there is no Mac Driver. I run it from the PC virtual machine and it is ok for Windows programmes but I would like to use it from my Mac as well. Is this possible under Parallels? If so how do I achieve it? Any help would be welcome.
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You can try to share the printer in Windows and connect to it from Mac OS.
 
alexandru c said:
I have a Konica Minolta Bizhub c350 with PCL5C (no fiery) network printer.
This printer has drivers only for windows, so I installed it through Boot camp and parallels.
The problem is that if in boot camp the printer works just fine, in parallels it says that the network is connected but the information doesn't get to the printer.

What should I do?

My work is on my Mac and I'm tired of pulling out my laptop just for printing.
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You should try Bridged networking
 
I tried bridged networking

I already tried bridged networking and still doesn't work.

Maybe I don't know how to set it up correctly.

When I installed the VM, it said that I don't have a network adaptor (or something like that) installed, so I went to System Preferences -> Network and added a new ethernet connection: Ethernet Adaptor (en2) which I used in bridged connection for the VM.

Now, I know that my printer's IP is 192.168.0.21 and Router 192.168.0.99 so, knowing that, what do I do?

I think I may be doing something wrong, but I don't know what.
 
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