VMWARE Fusion and Printing
My wife uses Windows on her Mac. It's a virtual machine running well
and she can switch from Windows to OS X easily, and does. The
university where she works requires Windows for some of what she does,
but the Mac is so much better built, in our experience. She has done
well with this for quite awhile.
Recently, however, if
she printed something in Windows, the printer would not work for
programs on the Mac. If she printed something from the Mac, the printer
would not connect in Windows. I found a workaround (Go to "Virtual
Machine" up on the menu bar, scroll down to "USB and Bluetooth" and
either connect or disconnect the printer to which you want to print.)
Painful. Mountain Lion did not help. Oh, well. I think it might have started happening when VMWARE upgraded her Fusion 4.
Anyway,
VMWARE helped me by installing Bonjour, and making the printer for
Windows a Bonjour Printer. All of a sudden she can switch from Windows
to Mac, printing seamlessly from either. You have to be a geek or a
tech to get there, but she isn't and doesn't want the hassle. She just
wants it to work.
If you have that issue, try Bonjour. It worked for us.
Leave a comment if you have another solution, or something to add.