Re: Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-16 Thread Tim Law
Thanks for the tips Peter, Ronni and Daniel. I'll let you know what the outcome is, but it might be a week or so until I can get my colleague to give this option a go. Tim On 15/06/2012, at 7:42 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 14/06/2012, at 9:13 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Daniel,

Re: Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-14 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 14/06/2012, at 9:13 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Yes, I agree that in theory the printer should work exactly as you say; the > same as it does in Windows. > But sometimes it is not that easy to setup to always use the Windows drivers, > it reverts to default & trys to use the Mac

Re: Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-14 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Daniel, Yes, I agree that in theory the printer should work exactly as you say; the same as it does in Windows. But sometimes it is not that easy to setup to always use the Windows drivers, it reverts to default & trys to use the Mac drivers (which Tim mentions don't work properly in OS X).

Re: Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Ronni For a network printer you can advise it to not use the "Mac" printer, but to override it and use the default printer. I've done that for a couple of clients and had it working fine. (Perhaps it was an older version though, I'll need to double check). But I just installed the Windows so

Re: Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-14 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Daniel & Tim, I'm not so sure that it will use the Windows installed drivers. Parallels Desktop for Mac is designed to work with printers that require USB 2.0 support. If your printer is more than 5 years old, it may not work with Parallels Desktop for Mac. http://kb.parallels.com/en/4886 ht

Re: Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Tim Parallels will normally use the Mac driver to print from. However if you tell it use the dedicated Windows driver then it should work fine and "override" that setting. So therefor in theory it should run fine, the same as it does in Windows itself Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacW

Parallels and printer drivers

2012-06-14 Thread Tim law
Hello I've a friend who has a fully Mac house/business, apart from one PC. She has one old but good large capacity HP A3 duplex laser printer she wants to keep, but the Mac OSX drivers do not allow her to use the full capacity of the printer features as she requires. Consequently she has to ke