virtual pc 6.0 & installing printers

peve

ibook 500mhz

mac os 9.2.2

virtual pc 6.0 ( win 98 )

epson stylus color 740 and/or canon bjc85 (usb)



i'm trying (and failing) to install a printer in vpc.

installation of the (windows) printer-driver runs fine but somehow virtual pc can't communicate with the printer.



help?

please?

skipjack

Quote:

Originally posted by peve

i'm trying (and failing) to install a printer in vpc.

installation of the (windows) printer-driver runs fine but somehow virtual pc can't communicate with the printer.

If I remember correctly, there's something else on the VPC CD that needs to be installed. Look in the VPC help in OS X. There's a pulldown menu for "How to print with Virtual PC".



Have you enabled the USB port in VPC?

mr. me

Quote:

Originally posted by peve

ibook 500mhz

mac os 9.2.2

virtual pc 6.0 ( win 98 )

epson stylus color 740 and/or canon bjc85 (usb)



i'm trying (and failing) to install a printer in vpc.

installation of the (windows) printer-driver runs fine but somehow virtual pc can't communicate with the printer.



help?

please?

You don't need to install a print driver on VPC. VPC includes a driver that allows you to print from the Mac's default printer.

peve

Quote:

Originally posted by Skipjack

If I remember correctly, there's something else on the VPC CD that needs to be installed. Look in the VPC help in OS X. There's a pulldown menu for "How to print with Virtual PC".

it's running on mac os 9.2.2.

it's not my mac (i killed 9 a long time ago).

Quote:

[i]Have you enabled the USB port in VPC?

yep!



it looks like there are two kinds of printing in vpc:

-dircetly to the usb port (with win printerdriver)

-via a "virtual printer" (vpc uses the installed printer in 9)



both don't work