Setup Printer in a Virtual Machine

There are three principal methods of configuring printing in a Virtual Machine:

• Setup a network printer.

  We recommend that you use this method since it provides the most stable work.

• Connect a Virtual Machine's parallel port to a parallel port of your real computer to which a printer is connected.

  This is performed in Parallel Port Options tab. Two options are available for Virtual Machines under Windows primary OS: Use printer and Use port. We recommend you to select the Use printer option. When using this method, Parallels Workstation composes a printer job and transfers it to the primary OS that guides further process as if printer job was initiated by itself.

  On a computer running Linux primary OS only Use port option is available in Virtual Machines. When using this method, Parallels Workstation itself controls the printer job.

• Setup an USB printer.

Configuring Virtual Machine for all methods of printing is given below.