virtual pc 6.0 & installing printers

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  skipjack Posts: 263member

  September 6, 2003 1:20PM

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  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?
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  mr. me Posts: 3,221member

  September 7, 2003 1:11PM

  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.
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  peve Posts: 518member

  September 7, 2003 2:12PM

  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).
  
  
  
  

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  [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